Aleksandar Vucic, Belgrade, Jan. 23 2023(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
On Feb. 15, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had a phone conversation with his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu, two days after she had accused Moscow of attempting to destabilize her country using saboteurs from Russia, Belarus, Serbia, and Montenegro.
According to a statement from Vucic’s Office, the two presidents offered support to territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and Moldova and expressed interest in developing bilateral relations to mutual benefit. “They assessed that the Serbs and Moldovans were friendly nations,” noting that potential open issues amid the latest statements would be resolved in talks.
In a phone talk with his Moldovan counterpart Nicu Popescu on Feb. 14, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that Belgrade decisively dismissed any insinuation about potential involvement of its nationals in possible violent events in Moldova.
Dacic stressed that Serbia had demanded from relevant Moldovan bodies to provide to Serbian security services any piece of information about the stated assumptions “in order to prevent anyone from Serbia from taking part in armed or violent activities anywhere in the world, which is strictly prohibited under law,” according to a release from the Serbian Foreign Ministry.
Popescu said that the intel had been received from Ukrainian intelligence services, adding that the Moldovan bodies had been investigating all such information coming in.
Sandu’s allegations that Moscow had been plotting to destabilize Moldova using foreign saboteurs were also dismissed by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Feb. 14.
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