The spokesman for Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting statement by Admiral Robert Burke, Commander of the United States Navy in Europe and Africa concerning Serbia’s defense capability, pointed out that the security of this country to a large extent depends on Russia’s response to threats from Serbia, reports TASS
“I would like to remind Burke and all his colleagues in the NATO disaster of two important facts. Serbia’s defense capacity in recent years, probably 200, to a large extent depends on how soon Russia will respond to external threats to this South Slavic country“.
“External threats to Serbia. By a strange coincidence, anyone who has ever invaded Serbia is now a member of NATO. If Burke knows the story, he welcomes the delivery of weapons from Russia to Serbia. for example anti-tank systems “Cornet“and very much hopes that they will cool the fire in the hot heads of the Alliance, which cloud the waters of the Balkans. Very bad, but normal if she doesn’t know, “Zaharova added.
Earlier, Burke commented in an interview with the Serbian newspaper Kurir NATO welcomes reforms under way in Serbia to strengthen its defense capabilities.
According to information published by the Serbian Ministry of Defense in late December In 2021, Serbia will spend one billion euros in 2022 г. For increase defense capabilities of its armed forces. Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic also announced that 142m euros will be invested in Serbian plants.
The 2022 defense budget is a strategic investmentdesigned to build Serbia’s defense capabilities, the local defense industry and the armed forcesbut also and the supply of foreign weapons and with the latest technology in military technology.
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Moscow expects that Pristina’s actions against the representative of the UN mission in Kosovo will receive appropriate resistance from the leadership of the organization, commented Zaharova, in connection with the announcement of an employee of the mission as a persona non grata.
“We hope that this arbitrariness of Pristina will receive appropriate strong opposition from the leadership of the UN mission,” the diplomat said.
Zaharova stressed that declaring the representative of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo persona non grata is a continuation of the provocative line to exacerbate inter-ethnic relations.
“We consider another trick of Pristina as a continuation of the provocative line to sharpen interethnic relations in the region, discrediting the World Organization and, last but not least, Russia’s constructive role in the Balkans.”
It is obvious that the Kosovo authorities want to get rid of those who can objectively demonstrate Pristina’s destructive policies in Serb-populated regions. We strongly condemn any attempt to limit the activities or “push” the UN mission out of Kosovo by taking aggressive steps that run counter to the spirit and letter of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, “Zakharova added.
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The UN Mission in Kosovo has not received a request to declare the persona non grata of their Russian collaborator
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