{"id":1644,"date":"2024-08-13T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2024-08-13T07:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:01:58","slug":"eu-aspirant-should-join-brics-instead-deputy-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"EU aspirant should join BRICS instead \u2013 deputy PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Serbia has better opportunities elsewhere, Aleksandar Vulin has said<\/div>\n
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Serbia should pick BRICS over Brussels, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said in an interview with Russian media.<\/p>\n

The largest republic of the former Yugoslavia applied for EU membership in 2009 and has been a candidate since 2012, but the bloc has recently\u00a0demanded recognition<\/a>\u00a0of the breakaway province of Kosovo as a condition for membership.<\/p>\n

\u201cBRICS does not ask anything of Serbia and offers more than we could want. The EU asks of us everything, and I\u2019m no longer sure what it has to offer,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vulin told RIA Novosti on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see BRICS as an opportunity and an alternative,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vulin added.\u00a0\u201cSerbia is very closely investigating all the possibilities presented by BRICS and closer cooperation with its member states.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Vulin, Serbia is expecting an official invitation to the BRICS summit, scheduled for late October in Kazan, Russia.<\/p>\n

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Despite enormous pressure from Brussels, Belgrade has not joined the US and EU embargo against Moscow, officially pledging neutrality in the Ukraine conflict and maintaining trade relations with both Russia and the West.<\/p>\n

According to Vulin, this has put Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic at risk of\u00a0\u201ccolor revolution\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and even assassination.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething happens to everyone calling for a peaceful resolution on Ukraine, they get shot at,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vulin said, noting the attempted assassinations of Slovakian PM Robert Fico and former US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cVucic\u2019s life is in danger from those who want Serbia to stop being neutral, to sanction Russia, to recognize \u2018independent Kosovo\u2019 and disavow Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vulin said.\u00a0\u201cAnd they\u2019re not in the east, either.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Serbia wants peace and disagrees with those EU and NATO members who seek to achieve the impossible objective of defeating Russia by a proxy war, said Vulin.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace in Ukraine could have been reached in Istanbul,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vulin said, referring to the Turkish-mediated talks between Moscow and Kiev.\u00a0\u201cBut that didn\u2019t happen because those making the decisions about peace in Ukraine are not from Ukraine, and wish to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Vulin has been the deputy prime minister since May. Before that, he ran the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) from December 2022 to November 2023. According to persistent rumors, he was forced out under pressure from the US. Prior to that, he served as Serbia\u2019s minister of defense (2017-2020) and minister of internal affairs (2020-2022).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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