Opposition Blames Cancellation of Regional Summit on Serbian President

Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/SERBIAN PRESIDENCY/DIMITRIJE GOLL)

The cancellation of the Brdo-Brijuni Summit in Croatia is an illustration of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's unsuccessful foreign policy, the Serbia Center (SRCE) opposition party stated on March 31.

"The failure in developing relations with neighbors, among other things, affects Serbs in the region to a great extent. Populism, promotion of nationalism, anti-Western and anti-European narratives, spreading fear and hatred toward neighbors are well-known narratives which this government took over from the ideology of Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party, which it came from and from which it has never sincerely distanced itself," the party said in the statement.

SRCE added that over more than a decade, instead of improving regional relations, the Serbian Progressive Party regime had made relations with the neighbors worse and had even brought some of them back to the condition that existed after the end of the armed conflicts in the 1990s.

Earlier, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic canceled the Brdo-Brijuni Process Summit in the country, which focuses on the advancement of regional cooperation and acceleration of European integration and was due to take place this coming May, because of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's recent statements about relations with Croatia and other neighboring countries.