Croatian president: The summit for Ukraine was a show for Vučić

The Ukraine-South-East Europe summit in Dubrovnik on Wednesday was a show for Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who should not have been invited there, said Croatian President Zoran Milanovic in Krakow.

“I spoke to Vučić at lunch in Tivat and when I heard that he was invited to Dubrovnik, I laughed to myself and said, “This will not end well,” Milanović told reporters, referring to Tuesday’s Brdo-Brijuni Process meeting in that Montenegrin city.

The next day, a meeting of Southeast European countries and Ukraine was held in Dubrovnik, organized by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The Dubrovnik Declaration was adopted at the summit, expressing the strong support of the countries of Southeast Europe for Ukraine.

Although it had previously been announced that Serbia would be represented by the foreign minister, the Serbian president nevertheless traveled to Dubrovnik for the meeting.

Milanovic explained that Vucic was the president of a country that still maintained direct relations with Moscow, did not impose sanctions against Moscow and went its own way.

“Either adapt the content and tone to the guest or, even smarter, don’t invite him.” “But then how can Vučić agree with the statement that Plenkovic and his associates clumsily drafted, which mentions sanctions against Russia?” Then why did you call Vucic?” said Milanovic.

In Dubrovnik, before the joint press conference of Plenkovic and Zelenskiy, Vucic made a statement to the media in which he emphasized that Serbia had managed to change several key points of the Dubrovnik Declaration, including sanctions against Russia, for which he again refused to decide, and also refused to include military aid.

source: nova.rs