Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
At the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Athens, President Aleksandar Vucic used his influence to alter the text of the event’s official declaration issued on Aug. 21 so that the paragraph mentioning sanctions against Russia was removed, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic announced late on Aug. 22.
“What we’ve managed to achieve in Athens is a kind of diplomatic victory,” Dacic told Kurir TV.
The minister explained that Vucic showed him both the proposed and approved versions of the document, and that a comparison made it clear that any mention of the sanctions on Russia were omitted from the final draft.
According to Dacic, this information was made public in Russia as well, so that people know that Serbia managed to make this change “alone among 13 other countries.”
“And not because of Russia, but because [the paragraph] was harmful to our national and state interests,” the minister explained.
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