Aleksandar Vucic claims Slovakia’s PM Fico is ready to go to Russia as Belgrade braces for gasoline provide challenges
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to satisfy Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico on Monday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed. The reported assembly comes as Belgrade is getting ready for the US sanctions in opposition to the nation’s predominant oil and gasoline firm, Naftne Industrije Srbije (NIS).
“As I realized unofficially, and once I say unofficially, as I stated in regards to the sanctions in opposition to NIS, it’s completely sure, on Monday Robert Fico will go to Putin, because the chief of a European Union nation,” Vucic stated throughout an interview with Serbian Completely satisfied TV on Friday, as quoted by Euronews Serbia.
President Vucic acknowledged that beginning January 1, 2025, gasoline provides from Russia by means of Ukraine will cease. This choice will enormously have an effect on European vitality safety and Serbia’s preparedness for winter calls for.
He acknowledged that Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal had signed the related order on Friday. Moreover, Vucic beforehand talked about that US sanctions in opposition to NIS may additionally come into impact on January 1, 2025.
The expiration of a transit settlement between Moscow and Kiev, which facilitates the stream of Russian gasoline to the EU, has raised issues amongst nations like Slovakia that depend on this route for his or her provides.
As Fico warned on Friday, Slovakia is contemplating retaliation in opposition to Ukraine over its refusal to proceed the transit of Russian gasoline to the EU nation.
Relations between the 2 nations can’t be a one-way avenue, Fico asserted throughout the identical speech, including: “I can not utterly rule out reciprocal measures.” His authorities will think about its choices over the subsequent week, he stated.
Vucic added in his interview {that a} doable Putin-Fico assembly “will provoke a response from different European leaders from the EU, and you’ll see how sophisticated issues are.”
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