Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov . Archival photoMOSCOW, June 6Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed allegations of attempts to get ahead of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on a visit to Serbia. Serbia is one of the most unwanted guests, because he decided to get ahead of (German Chancellor) Olaf Scholz, who is going to the Balkans just these days, and Scholz was allegedly very dissatisfied and even offended that Serbia decided to take such a step, «said Lavrov during a press conference.
Lavrov said that the West is afraid of the truth»I leave on the conscience of those analysts who write such things, I think that this is humiliating not only for the people they describe and whose reaction they are trying to predict, it is humiliating, first of all, for the media themselves, who are trying to find additional readers or viewers in such exercises,» the minister added. In Serbia, Ana Brnabic said on Sunday that President Aleksandar Vučić had to personally deal with the logistics of the Russian Foreign Minister's visit scheduled for June 6-7. She noted that the position of official Belgrade is further complicated by the fact that the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected on June 10, and the moment in foreign policy is such that «no one wants to talk to anyone, let alone listen.» «published on Monday photographs of decisions by the Foreign Ministries of Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro to ban government aircraft from Russia from flying through the airspace. how Russia will respond to the hostile actions of the West
