Meeting between Vucic and Trump – Serbia is outraged by Zakharova’s post

On Friday, September 4, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic paid a visit to Washington, where an agreement with the United States on economic cooperation with Kosovo was signed at the White House. After the appearance of the photo of the meeting of the leaders of the two states, a scandal broke out over the joke of the president of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

He published the corresponding post on his Facebook.

In the meeting itself there were also “surprises”: during a press conference after the signing of the agreements at the White House, after Trump’s words about the transfer of the Israeli embassies to Jerusalem, Vucic looked surprised and began to delve into documents. Then he looked reproachfully at his delegation and covered his face with his hand.

Later there was a photo of the negotiations themselves. In them, Vucic’s chair is practically in the center of the oval office, and diplomats and officials huddled around it. Trump himself sat across from him at a large table. Which is not typical for presidential meetings, they generally sit next to each other.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova decided to post the same photo, adding a screenshot from the movie “Basic Instinct”.

“If you were summoned to the database and the chair was placed as if under questioning, sit down like photo # 2. Whoever it is. Just believe it,” the message reads.

The Russian official’s post has sparked a wave of outrage in Serbia. In particular, the director of the office for Kosovo and Metohija under the Serbian government, Marko Djuric, said that Vucic “did not say a single bad word about Russia.”

“Imagine that the president of the Russian leader waited an hour and a half for a reception and never asked for a separate chair. I do not allow you to attack the proud Serbia. You should be ashamed,” he wrote on Twitter.

Later, Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic himself commented on Zakharova’s post, calling it primitivism, and also expressed regret that Russians do not appreciate Serbia’s position in relation to the Russian Federation. The Serbian leader said this on the air of the television channel “RTV Pink” on Sunday from Brussels.

“The subconscious speaks above all about a person, especially Maria Zakharova said of herself, primitivism and simplicity speak above all about her and those who published it. I will not talk about that, let them do it themselves,” said Vucic.

“I understand Zakharova, our negotiations were successful, but I am sorry, because there I also defended our relations with Russia and refused to sign an agreement on the purchase of more expensive liquefied gas, which was in the original document. People do not appreciate the fact that Serbia is the only country, which has not imposed sanctions against Russia, they appreciate, I suppose, the leadership, they do not appreciate that Serbia is a militarily neutral country and is not going to join NATO, the The only country that buys gas and weapons from them, I am not going to explain the primitivism of another person, he said.

Vucic explained that for him the invitation to the Oval Office “was an honor and a privilege, the treaty was an honor for the Serbian people.” “They put me in a chair, we had a frank conversation, in which I even defended our relations with China. What, I had to say, ‘Listen, why don’t I have a chair as high as you, President of America? “Was it leaving because the chair prevented me? I don’t dream of chairs or” Basic Instinct “, – said the Serbian leader.

“Solve the problems with your fantasies however you want, and I sat in this chair to solve the problems of Serbia and fight for their interests. If I had to, I would stand up, I would sit down, whatever. I don’t know what to say to them. those people. Chairs talk about the people who talk about these chairs “, emphasized Vucic.

Let us remember, the president of Serbia Vucic went to study to be a basketball coach.

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