Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bulgaria have not approved the overflight of the aircraft that was supposed to deliver Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the Serbian capital Belgrade. This was reported by the Serbian edition Danas, citing unofficial sources in government circles..

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry was supposed to meet with the President of Serbia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of the National Assembly and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church on June 6 and 7. However, the visit was canceled due to the refusal of neighboring Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to let his plane through their airspace..

Then, instead of Lavrov, on Monday, June 6, Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Bokan-Kharchenko will meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Even before the cancellation was known at all, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that the situation around the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Belgrade was “extremely complicated” and that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was handling the logistics of his trip..

“It is really unbelievable that the situation in Europe and the world is such that the president of a country has to deal with such things as the logistics of the trip of the foreign minister, which determines whether he will come or not,” said Brnabic..

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Recall that Serbia is a rather pro-Russian country and has not yet joined the sanctions against Russia.. The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borel, said that this would interfere if the country decides to join the EU, because all EU members share common democratic values..