Serbia journey canceled immediately after international locations near airspace to Lavrov's plane

Victor I. Nava

June 06, 03:05 AM June 06, 03:05 AM

Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov's journey to Serbia was abruptly canceled on Sunday soon after 3 nations bordering the Balkan country closed their airspace to the Russian diplomat's aircraft.

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday confirmed reports that Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Montenegro did not make it possible for permission for the overflight of the plane carrying Lavrov to the Serbian funds of Belgrade. Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reportedly termed the shift “another closed channel of conversation.”

"The international locations bordering Serbia have closed the only air route to the plane of Sergey Lavrov who was to depart for Serbia. The Russian delegation was scheduled to maintain talks in Belgrade, even though the EU and NATO member-nations have closed their airspace," Zakharova informed an Italian tv station, according to Tass.

"Our diplomacy has not but mastered the potential to teleport," a senior Russian Overseas Ministry official said of the incident, in accordance to the Russian news outlet Interfax.

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Lavrov experienced been scheduled to visit Serbia June 6-7. Prior to the journey was canceled, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic was reportedly getting to manage the "particularly complex" flight logistics.

“It is genuinely unbelievable that the scenario in Europe and in the entire world is these that the president of 1 of the international locations has to deal with this sort of issues as the logistics of the flight of the minister of international affairs [of another country], on which it depends whether he gets there or not,” Serbian Primary Minister Ana Brnabic advised a Serbian media outlet about the condition with Lavrov's flight.

Serbia has close ties with Russia and has not joined Western sanctions versus the Kremlin above the invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Serbia achieved an arrangement very last month on purely natural gas shipments to Serbia amid Russian President Vladimir Putin reducing off other nations around the world for refusing to pay out for the gas in roubles.