The collective refusal of Bulgaria, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia to allow Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's plane into Serbia is directed against two sovereign European states, a joint harsh reaction with Serbia is needed. This opinion was expressed Monday by Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council.
"The current démarche, of course, is not about the plane. It is directed against Russia as a state and against Serbia as a state. I hope the reaction will be joint and very harsh, not only in the form of diplomatic protests but also in the form of concrete, practical responses. So it will not be tolerated," the senator wrote in his Telegram channel.
He has no doubt that this collective refusal of the three countries to let Lavrov's plane into Serbia is not a decision of these three countries. "All three countries, by joining NATO, have lost their sovereignty seriously and permanently, and the European Union for them, members and aspirants alike, is just a cover for this shameful circumstance. This is a NATO démarche, and it could not have happened without the US. By directly interfering in the bilateral affairs of two sovereign European non-member countries, Russia and Serbia, NATO is trying to capture and subjugate the rest of Europe. Then - the globalization of the alliance to the rest of the world, where China is strategic objective number two after Russia," said the vice speaker of the Federation Council.
He cited the lack of sovereignty of a united Europe as the main problem of the continued division of what could have been a united and indivisible Europe. "The funeral team represented by Britain, Poland, the three Baltic countries and the Czech Republic are now joined by Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Gravediggers of the real European dream," Kosachev noted. He recalled that the Bulgarian MFA led by Katerina Zakharieva in September 2019 urged Russia not to support the "dubious historical thesis" that the Soviet Union's war against Hitler's Germany was the liberation of Europe. "Nothing is accidental and nothing passes without a trace," the parliamentarian concluded.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that Sergey Lavrov's plane had been denied overflight in the airspace of countries surrounding Serbia. She made a statement to this effect on Sunday evening on the air of the "Not Arena" talk show on the Italian La7 channel.
Earlier, the Serbian newspaper Vecernje novosti reported that Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro refused to provide an air corridor for Lavrov's plane, which was to head to Serbia.
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Based on materials from TASS