President of Serbia Aleksandar VucicBELGRADE, Apr 17Serbia is under serious pressure from the West due to its refusal to impose sanctions against Russia, President Aleksandar Vucic said. «If we impose sanctions against Russia, I will receive any award anywhere you want. I will be glorified by everyone, they will say that I am the greatest democrat in the world , although until yesterday they called it authoritarian and semi-autocratic … It costs us dearly that we do not support sanctions. More expensive than you think. And if they did, it would cost us our principles not to support sanctions to anyone, because we know from our example how immoral to impose sanctions, how ineffective,” the Serbian leader said on TV Pink.Serbian planes in Russia are «mining» special services from Ukraine, Vučić also said that «Russia has always supported the territorial integrity of Serbia since 2001,» although he recalled that Moscow joined the ban on flights over Serbia from 1992 to 1996. «But it was a different time … And I'm not looking for an excuse to justify my steps towards those who helped us in other important matters, and do not forget who vetoed the British resolution in 2015 (on the Srebrenica genocide — Note ed.) at the UN,” Vucic emphasized. At the same time, he said that Serbia was the only European country that had not imposed sanctions. “Some protesters come out and say: Vucic is a traitor. A traitor to Russia? imposed sanctions <…> And we are from such a small country,» he said. On April 9, Vučić thanked Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov for understanding why Serbia voted to suspend Russia's participation in the UN Human Rights Council, and the EU leadership — for the exclusion of Belgrade from restrictions on oil supplies. for prios tanovku participation of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council because of the events in Ukraine. Serbia, among others, supported the resolution. The decision deprived the Russian Federation of the right to vote and the right to speak in the Council. In response, Russia announced that it was terminating its powers in the HRC. In an address to fellow citizens on March 2, the President of Serbia said that the country's authorities supported four of the 13 points of the UN resolution condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine — those that do not involve sanctions and the alienation of property of Russian companies in the country. According to him, the crisis due to the hostilities in Ukraine is having a dramatic impact on Serbia, which has come under enormous foreign political pressure.
