US Ambassador Christopher Hill said on September 26th, that he expected Serbia to explain what kind of cooperation document was signed with Russia, following talks at the United Nations (UN) in New York.
Hill, speaking at a news conference after the opening of the Regional Forum “Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Policies in Times of Geopolitical Uncertainty” at the Metropol hotel that it was “not entirely clear” what the document contains, but that “at this moment no one should sign anything with Russia”.
“Nobody is signing anything (with Russia). It’s hard for us to understand but we expect an explanation,” Hill said.
The ambassador added that the United States (USA) supports Serbia on its path to membership in the European Union (EU), as well as in relieving energy dependence on Russia “which is based on blackmail”, but that this assistance will be as much as Serbia asks for.
Hill said the United States wants to hear what it is that Serbia wants by signing an agreement with a state that “brutally attacked its neighbor” and threatens the use of nuclear weapons.
The foreign ministers of Serbia and Russia, Nikola Selakovic and Sergei Lavrov signed on 23rd September in New York on the premises of the Russian mission to the UN, on the sidelines of 77th UN General Assembly session, the plan of consultations between the two countries ‘foreign ministries for the next two years, which the Serbian Foreign Ministry said was a “technical document”.
Joffre: Serbia to stand with the EU, signing an agreement with Russia sends the opposite message
European Union ambassador to Serbia Emmanuel Joffre said in September that Serbia had signed a document on cooperation with Russia at a time when Russia’s aggression against a sovereign country has been ongoing for seven months and at a time when Russia began implementing the decision to mobilize 300,000 of its citizens for war with Ukraine and threatened the use of nuclear weapons.
At a press conference after the opening of the Regional Forum “Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Policies in Times of Geopolitical Uncertainty” at the Metropol Hotel, Joffre said that the EU “expects Serbia to stand by it in defense of European values and international law”.
“By signing the cooperation agreement with Russia, Serbia has sent the opposite message, despite saying that it will not recognize the results of the referendum conducted by Russia in the occupied territory of Ukraine,” Joffre said in response to a question from a journalist.
He recalled that Serbia is on the path to joining the EU and that it is expected to harmonize its foreign policy with the EU, including the imposition of sanctions on Russia. /RSE/
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