Aleksandar Vucic admitted that the country is suffering huge losses because of this decision.
Serbia will not support sanctions against the Russian Federation. Belgrade suffers huge losses because of his decision.
This was announced by the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić on the air of the channel The first.
“The price we pay is huge, we don’t have access to the capital market, when there is no access to the capital market, it’s impossible to service our loans… They say: ‘Vučić announces the imposition of sanctions’ – no, we will fight as much as we can” , the politician said.
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At the same time, he pointed out that Serbia is suffering huge losses because of its decision.
“We are suffering heavy losses, but we do not ask anyone” thank you “. We are very patient without imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation, but we do this because we are an independent country,” Vučić said.
It is worth noting that at the end of February, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Belgrade refused to impose sanctions. Then Vucic said that such a decision does not meet the interests of the country, but Serbia supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
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As UNIAN previously reported, the sixth package of sanctions provides for imposition of an embargo on Russian oil, which caused controversy within the European Union. The main opponent of the introduction of such restrictions was Hungary, which is heavily dependent on Russian energy. According to the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjártó, the country needs approximately 700-750 million euros to reorient the oil refining industry.
According to Bloomberg sources, the EU proposed to revise the oil embargo against Russia and allow Hungary and Slovakia to buy Russian oil until the end of 2024Czech Republic – until June 2024.
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