Brnabic: Croatia's open act of hostility towards Serbia, today everyone will see how determined Vucic is

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Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic says that Croatia's demand to stop the delivery of Russian oil to Serbia via the Janaf pipeline, as part of the new package of EU sanctions against Russia, is an open act of Croatia's hostility towards Serbia and that Serbia, after the return of President Aleksandar Vucic from Prague and his address on Saturday, will have to make strategic decisions and strategic changes.

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"All this is happening at the explicit request of Croatia to include that, to effectively punish Serbia, just because Serbia is demanding punishment for the murdered children (on Petovacka Cesta - Petrovac Road), and for the EU not to prevent this, that's a scandal," Brnabic told TV Happy.

Brnabic said she already spoke about that the president will be "under enormous pressure today (at the European political community summit in Prague), but now, after this disgraceful EU decision, I think they will be the ones under a barrage fire."

"I honestly think that today they will see who Aleksandar Vucic is and what kind of a politician he is. I don't think they've seen a Vucic who is this determined and who has such strong arguments to show them all their shame and hypocrisy," Brnabic said.

The prime minister said that Brussels has excluded some EU members, such as Bulgaria and Hungary, from its new package of anti-Russian sanctions - "because they say that it will affect them economically, but would not exclude Serbia, at the explicit request of Croatia, thereby causing direct financial damage to Serbia, to all citizens and the economy, taking hundreds and hundreds of millions of euros from their pockets."

"This is an open act of Croatia's hostility towards Serbia. We will wait for the return of the president, as well as his address on Saturday, and based on this we will have to make some strategic decisions and strategic changes. Another important thing is that this showed that everything that the EU accuses Russia of - that they are an unreliable partner, that they use energy for political purposes - the EU did all that to us yesterday - Croatia took advantage of energy and its position, that Janaf happens to go through its territory, Croatia used all that for political purposes and the EU allowed it to do all that," said Brnabic, reports Tanjug.

When asked how this can be changed, she said that "there is no help, we can only turn to Janaf, it's the only oil pipeline that goes to Serbia" and that only the EU is the one that can change the decision.

(Telegraf.rs)