Sergei Lavrov blocked the trip to Serbia

The three countries explained their decision by using sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia after launching its offensive in Ukraine on February 24. Minister Lavrov was personally targeted by multiple sanctions.

The unthinkable has happenedenraged Mr. Lavrov, at an online press conference called urgently on Monday morning. A sovereign state is deprived of its right to exercise its foreign policy he added, attacking a proposal scandalous.

From a Western perspective, Serbia should have no choice, no freedom to choose its partnersadded the Russian Foreign Minister. The West is clearly showing that it is willing to use any means to persevere in Russia.

” If a visit by the Russian foreign minister is treated to the West as a near-global threat, it seems to mean that everything is very bad there. “

Such hostile actions in our country have the potential to cause some problems […]but they cannot prevent our diplomacy from continuing its workreacted for his part the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.

Russia’s head of diplomacy is due to meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, his counterpart Nikola Selakovic and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Porfirije in Belgrade. Due to the turn of events, Mr. Lavrov said he invited Mr. Selakovic to visit Russia ASAP.

However, the head of Russia’s diplomacy assured that Moscow did not intend to respond. As far as responses are concerned, we will not do anything that would risk further complicating the relationship between people.he said.

This is not the first time Mr. Lavrov to travel outside Russia since the war began. On March 1, he had to cancel the visit to Switzerland and resigned himself to giving a speech via videoconference to the Human Rights Council. Several countries, including Canada, boycotted this speech.