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In an offended voice, the Serbian Defense Minister replied that the EU had respectfully asked the Serbian government not to conduct military exercises with the Russian and Belarusian armies on Belarusian territory at this time.
Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin has stated that the Serbian army will suspend all military exercises and military activities with all its partners for the next six months, the Word of Free Hungary announced in Vojvodina. Vulin said Serbia was under heavy pressure from the EU, which said the country was undeserved due to a planned Serbian-Russian-Belarusian military exercise.
“We will not engage in any military activity for the next six months. We will not conduct military exercises with any of our partners, including NATO, the Organization for the Collective Security Treaty, the United States, Russia and China,” said Vulin, who said that the EU was putting pressure on Serbia because it planned a joint military exercise with Belarus.
“We are being asked, under even greater pressure on our European future, our politics and our people, to abandon our planned military exercise with Belarus,” Vulin explained, saying the government had made this decision because Serbia wanted to maintain its military neutrality. Meanwhile, his boss, President Aleksandar Vucic, had a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but they did not reveal what they had agreed to.
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