Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Kyrgyzstan (BETAPHOTO/DOSALIEV SULTAN)
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said on Aug. 28 that he will be visiting Moscow before the end of the year and meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
“Of course I’ll meet with my colleague Sergey Lavrov. We won’t discuss anything but our bilateral relations. If [Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter] Szijjarto can go to Moscow, why couldn’t we?” Dacic told Happy TV.
According to Dacic, Serbia “owes” Lavrov a sit-down given that he was prevented from attending a scheduled meeting in Serbia in June 2022. At the time, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro, all three NATO members, denied his plane overflight.
A year and a half into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Serbia still refuses to join the EU’s sanctions against Moscow, despite continual calls to do so by European officials.
The Serbian foreign minister also said that he will be travelling to Indonesia on Sept. 4 to sign Serbia’s accession to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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