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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday accused Moscow of falling into “primitivism and vulgarity” in an attack against him, after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zaharova said in a Facebook post that En Last week’s meeting at the White House would have been better positioned opposite US President Donald Trump in actress Sharon Stone’s famous booth in the movie “Basic Instinct,” reports Reuters and Eho radio station. Moskvi on their website. , according to Agerpres.
Serbia is Moscow’s closest ally in the Balkans, but President Aleksandar Vucic has long angered Russia in his attempts to seek better relations with the West, Reuters notes.
He took a step in that direction last week when he traveled to Washington and on Friday signed an agreement to improve economic relations with Kosovo, a province of Serbian independence that was self-proclaimed in 2008, which Belgrade and Moscow do not recognize. The document was signed at the White House after talks between Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti under the auspices of the United States.
In a comment on the Kosovo Serb talks at the White House, Russian diplomacy spokeswoman Maria Zaharova posted a photo on Facebook showing Vucic during a meeting with Donald Trump sitting in a chair at a considerable distance in front of him. . the American president, completing it with a picture of the actress Sheron Stone in the famous 1992 film “Basic Instinct”, during a police interrogation.
“If you are invited to the White House and the chair you are sitting in has been placed in such a way that it looks like you are being questioned, you should sit as in photo 2. Whoever you are. Trust me,” Zaharova wrote.
In a televised reaction from Brussels, Vucic said: “Maria Zaharova speaks in most cases of herself, and the primitivism and vulgarity that she has shown speaks of herself and, by God, of those who have placed her. there. “
The director of the Kosovo-Metohija office, Marko Djuric, of the Serbian government, said in a Twitter post on Sunday that the president (Vucic) had never said a bad word about Russia, not even there. White House). “This (Serbian) president sat in the anteroom of the Russian president (Vladimir Putin) and waited an hour and a half to be received (…). I will not allow you to attack this proud Serbia. What a shame! ”Said Marko Djuric, whose statement was widely commented on in the Serbian blogosphere, according to Eho Moskvî.
More calmly, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in a statement: “Today, the enemies of Serbia and Russia are enjoying Zaharova’s petty evil.”
Maria Zaharova updated her post on Sunday, apologizing and saying her statements were misunderstood.
In an attempt to stop a possible diplomatic incident, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the Serbian president on Sunday afternoon, Moscow and Belgrade confirmed. “Interlocutors found the relations between Serbia and Russia to be sincerely friendly. They also reiterated their willingness to continue working on the implementation of joint projects and to support each other at the international level,” reported the official Russian news agency TASS.
Editing: Robert Kiss
