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On May 17 the European Commission said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s visit to Moscow on May 9 “represents a wrong signal” and that Moscow “is not a place to show support for peace.”
N1 TV recalled that EU enlargement commission Marta Kos had said that relations with Vladimir Putin’s regime “cannot be like they were before” due to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
When asked about this by N1 the Commission’s press service replied that “the EU has sent a clear message to all of its partners, including candidate countries like Serbia: There can be no normalization of relations with Putin’s regime as long as his unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine lasts. Moscow is not a place to show support for peace.”
The European Commission said that it “strongly regrets” that the Serbian leadership participated in the celebration of Victory Day in Moscow, because Russia was using that day for propaganda purposes. Brussels said that it expected Serbia “to convincingly prove its strategic orientation toward the EU” and clearly demonstrate its commitment to European values.
Asked by N1 whether Serbia would open a new cluster in negotiations with the EU soon, as announced by President Vucic, the Commission replied that concrete decisions were passed by the EU’s member states, but that reforms were a precondition for progress in the accession process.
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