Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nemanja Starovic (Photo: printscreen/youtube)
On June 9 in Belgrade, Nemanja Starovic, a secretary with the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he expects that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will use his visit to the Serbian capital to reiterate the message that Serbia should join the sanctions against Russia. Starovic added that such a move would do more damage to Serbia than to Russia.
“Every official that has visited us from EU member states has stressed these expectations of, as they say, Serbia fully aligning with the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy – which, practically speaking, means joining the sanctions they imposed against Russia,” Starovic told the RTS public service.
The secretary underlined Scholz’s recent statement that the sanctions Germany and its EU partners levied on Russia must be “serious, harsh, but not more harmful to Germany than to Russia.”
“We can understand that argument – and hope that it can be applied to our case as well. It is quite certain that any potential sanctions against Russia would do far more harm to Serbia than to Russia. We believe that this reasoning at least will be understandable to Scholz,” Starovic concluded.
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