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😡 The future government of Serbia plans to cancel arms supplies to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, - Reuters
Leaders of the "Student List," which won the parliamentary elections in Serbia 25 October, said the future government will halt exports of weapons to war zones, including sales to Western intermediaries who pass them on to Ukraine.
This was reported by Reuters.
According to the agency, leading candidates of the "Student List" said the new government "will stop all exports of weapons from Serbia to war zones," including sales to Western intermediaries who transfer weapons to Ukraine.
Reuters recalls that former president Aleksandar Vučić maintained close personal ties with both Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
The student movement said it does not plan to join EU sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine. According to the agency, the new government will rely on exemptions from US sanctions to maintain oil imports while awaiting the sale of Russia's stake in the energy company NIS to Hungarian MOL. NIS operates Serbia's only oil refinery. Russian Gazprom is also the largest gas supplier to Serbia: about 2,2 billion cubic meters per year at below-market prices. The "Student List" said this dependence is not a geopolitical choice but an acute economic necessity.
"Sanctions from a small country like Serbia will change nothing for Russia, but symbolically it would be very bad. We respect Russia both as a great power and as our historically important partner, and in many cases — a defender. In this regard (in the country's foreign policy) there will be no changes," said Student List representative Jovo Bakić.
Regarding deliveries of Russian energy resources on which Serbia depends, and the pressure from the EU to give them up, Bakić noted:
"We are not here to please foreigners, but to work in our national interests."
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