Lavrov calls it "intolerable" that Serbia's neighboring countries prevented his flight from reaching Belgrade

MADRID, 6 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has described this Monday as "intolerable" the decision of North Macedonia, Montenegro and Bulgaria not to give permission to the plane in which he was traveling to reach Serbia, where he planned to make a visit official.

"There are many questions about the reaction to the unprecedented decisions taken by some NATO members, which prevented the visit of the Russian foreign minister to Serbia," said Lavrov himself, who described what happened as "inconceivable".

"A sovereign state has been deprived of its right to conduct its foreign policy. Serbia's international activities towards Russia have been blocked, at least for the time being," the Russian minister denounced, the agency reported. of Interfax news.

The Government of Bulgaria confirmed this Monday that it closed its airspace to the plane that was transporting Lavrov in relation to the sanctions regime imposed by the European Union (EU) against Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine, triggered on February 24, according to the Bulgarian news agency BTA.

Lavrov was scheduled to visit Serbia on June 6 and 7, but the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, acknowledged that "the situation is getting complicated." During the day on Sunday, the Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, recognized the problem.

"It is incredible that the situation in Europe and the world is such that the president of a country must deal with such things as the logistical organization of a trip by a foreign minister from another country and that it depends on that whether he comes or not," Brnabic argued in statements to Serbian television.