Izvor: N1 televizija, 26.Apr.2018, 09:17 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Russian official in Belgrade slams Ukraine, Kiev protests
Natalya Poklonskaya, a deputy chief of Russian Duma’s Security and fight against corruption Committee, has slammed Ukraine during a visit to Belgrade, prompting Kiev's strong protest.
Poklonskaya was invited by a Serbian ultra-nationalist movement, following its leader Bosko Obradovic’ s visit to Crimea last week.
The Dveri movement hosted Poklonskaya in the country’s Parliament where she also met with the ruling coalition’s MPs.
Serbia’s Foreign >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << Minister, whose Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) is the main coalition party of the President Aleksandar Vucic’s Progressive Party (SNS), said he has not been informed of the visit by the Russian official who is under the European Union’s sanctions and banned from travelling to the block’s countries.
Poklonskaya hit the list of the EU unwanted Russians in 2014, when she was posted the Ukraine state prosecutor, after Kiev accused her of activities aimed at changing the constitutional order of the country.
She has met members of the Committee for Diaspora in Belgrade, using the visit to accuse Ukraine for crimes and send the message that Crimea is Russian as Kosovo is Serbian.
“They (Ukrainians) kill children, old people, women… They mutilate small children, destroying settlements, cities, regions... They burned people alive in Odessa in May 2014 only because they were Russians,” Poklonskaya said.
The Ukraine embassy in Belgrade reacted to the visit, saying that “she, who calls for the destruction of the territorial integrity, for the state treason, for the violation of human rights and unlawful persecution, is welcomed by Serbian MPs as a good person for cooperation,” the embassy’s statement said.
It added that the most important question would be what would the Ukrainian people think about the Serbs and called on Serbia's government to condemn the meeting the ruling party’s MPs had with Poklonskaya.
Dacic said that the invitation to Poklonskaya was not sent by the Foreign Ministry. “We pay a serious attention to our contacts with foreign officials to avoid irritating any side. We respect the principle of the territorial integrity, so I hope that all of this has been in line with our political stands.”
An SNS deputy said he believed that the visit would not have any influence to either relations between Belgrade and Kiev or Serbia’s path to the EU. Aleksandar Martinovis said that “Serbia’s eventual entry to the EU will in no way put in jeopardy our brotherly and friendly relations with Russia.”
