Serbia journey canceled right after countries near airspace to Lavrov's airplane

Victor I. Nava

June 06, 03:05 AM June 06, 03:05 AM

Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov's excursion to Serbia was abruptly canceled on Sunday after three countries bordering the Balkan nation closed their airspace to the Russian diplomat's plane.

The Russian Overseas Ministry on Sunday confirmed experiences that Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Montenegro did not enable permission for the overflight of the aircraft carrying Lavrov to the Serbian cash of Belgrade. Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reportedly called the go “another closed channel of interaction.”

"The countries bordering Serbia have shut the only air route to the aircraft of Sergey Lavrov who was to depart for Serbia. The Russian delegation was scheduled to maintain talks in Belgrade, though the EU and NATO member-countries have shut their airspace," Zakharova instructed an Italian tv station, in accordance to Tass.

"Our diplomacy has not nonetheless mastered the capability to teleport," a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official said of the incident, in accordance to the Russian news outlet Interfax.

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Lavrov experienced been scheduled to take a look at Serbia June 6-7. Prior to the journey was canceled, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic was reportedly possessing to cope with the "really complicated" flight logistics.

“It is definitely unbelievable that the scenario in Europe and in the environment is these kinds of that the president of one of the nations has to offer with this sort of things as the logistics of the flight of the minister of foreign affairs [of another country], on which it relies upon no matter whether he receives there or not,” Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic advised a Serbian media outlet about the scenario with Lavrov's flight.

Serbia has near ties with Russia and has not joined Western sanctions from the Kremlin more than the invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Serbia achieved an arrangement previous thirty day period on natural fuel shipments to Serbia amid Russian President Vladimir Putin slicing off other nations around the world for refusing to pay back for the gasoline in roubles.