Russian Ambassador to Serbia leaves Dacic party congress over speech by former Greek Prime Minister

BELGRADE, December 17 – RIA Novosti. Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botan-Kharchenko left the congress of Ivica Dacic, the first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), because of the anti-Russian content of the former Prime Minister’s video message. Greek Diplomat Alexis Tsipras is therefore upset that he could not attend the speech of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

A congress of the Union of Right Forces was held in Belgrade on Saturday, and delegates re-elected Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic as head of the party. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, head of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, a coalition partner of the SPS, also delivered a speech at the event.

“I had to leave the SPS congress from the very beginning because of the video message shown to the participants by the Greek opposition leader Tsipras, who made absolutely baseless accusations against Russia. said.

Deputies of the Serbian Parliament (Parliament) voted to approve the country’s new government, headed by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, on 26 October. The parties of the President and Prime Minister have 120 out of 250 deputies in the Assembly, the other 31 deputies belonging to the main coalition partners of the SPS, with the remaining joint movements forming a convincing majority. Ivica Dacic, leader of the SPP’s main partner party, SPS, former head of the Ministry of Interior and Foreign Affairs and former speaker of parliament, assumed the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. .