Democrat MP: Ambassador Hill Should Change Rhetoric Toward Serbia’s Moblike Regime

Srdjan Milivojevic (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)

Srdjan Milivojevic, an MP of the oppositional Democratic Party, said on Aug. that U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Christopher Hill should change his rhetoric toward Serbia’s “moblike regime” and its head, President Aleksandar Vucic.

Speaking for BETA, Milivojevic said he disagrees with Hill’s recent assessment that U.S.-Serbian relations “are making progress in different areas” and added that cooperation between the two countries cannot possibly be strengthening when the U.S. Department of the Treasury levied sanctions against Serbia’s Security and Information Agency chief Aleksandar Vulin over drug trafficking, arms smuggling and abuse of public office.

The MP stated that Hill “frequently lauds Serbia’s infamously moblike regime and its leader” and insisted that the U.S. administration should re-evaluate his choices given their “damaging” effect on America’s reputation among the Serbian public.

“If you spend years praising a moblike regime, despite everything that has been happening in Serbia, then this begs the question of what you expect to gain,” Milivojevic said.

The politician further found it “incomprehensible” that a video recently published by Hill would feature Pink TV owner Zeljko Mitrovic.

“I fail to see how the U.S. ambassador could justify to his superiors the advertising of Mitrovic, whose television [station] allows no freedom of speech whatsoever. I believe Zeljko Mitrovic is just as good a candidate for sanctions as Vulin, only, unlike [Vulin], he owns property in the West so being blacklisted would actually sting,” Milivojevic concluded.