Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
The president and prime minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic and Djuro Macut, were not invited to the Bled Strategic Forum, stated the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.
N1 Slovenia reported on Sept. 4, quoting unofficial sources, that the Serbian president had asked for an invitation to Bled, but had not received one. “Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Djuro Macut were not invited to the Bled Strategic Forum. Only Foreign Minister Marko Djuric received the invitation and took part in the Forum,” the Slovenian foreign ministry stated in a reply to N1.
Instead of Slovenia, Vucic traveled to China and attended the military parade marking 80 years since victory in World War II. Still, he declared in Beijing on Sept. 3 that Prime Minister Macut was invited to the Forum, but that he “rightfully did not go” because of the “blockaders.”
“They invited their blockaders to come to Bled, to be their guests. Let them, let them discuss strategic matters, because the blockaders will take over in Serbia in a few days – which is a story that I have been listening to for the past 13 or 14 years,” Vucic told reporters in Beijing when asked to comment on the claims in certain media about him going to China and not to the Bled Forum having been a mistake. On Aug. 21, Vucic wrote to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, declaring that students’ protests had grown into mass blockades and violent incidents, headed by extremist groups.
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