BELGRADE, August 26. /TASS/. The Russian Embassy in Belgrade has urged the US to stop humiliating Serbia. Its commentary on the US Ambassador Christopher Hill’s interview to the Serbian television channel N1 was uploaded to the embassy’s Telegram channel on Friday.
"The ambassador’s arrogant and impudent demand for ‘evidence of friendship’ between Russia and Serbia is as impressive as it is absurd. If Hill is to be believed, cooperation with our country does not meet Belgrade’s interests. Why does he think he is in a position to demand some kind of evidence on topics that have nothing to do with Washington? How much long can Serbia be humiliated?" the commentary reads.
The embassy believes that the demand for sharing the "sanction burden" with the EU is aimed at "undermining the socio-economic situation" of Serbia, which will reverse "its sustainable development" and let the "Westernizers" to do "whatever they please" to the country.
"To a large extent thanks to cooperation with Russia, Belgrade can feel confident in its future today - against a backdrop of acute crises provoked by the West in the field of military, energy and food security. We are certain this will be so in the future," the embassy’s commentary says.
Earlier, the US ambassador to Serbia, in an interview with N1 (the CNN's subsidiary in the Balkans), alleged that Russia "has Serbia to do things for their own, that is, for Russia’s interest", that "Serbia needs to understand who its friends are and frankly I don’t see a lot off evidence for the idea that Russia is any kind of friend." Also, he urged Belgrade to impose sanctions on Russia and "to join the burden of many other EU members."
Serbia’s Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, while commenting on Hill’s interview strongly advised him to remember the rules of decency and asked him to avoid treating Serbs like Indians on a reservation, stressing that Russia, unlike the United States, was not demanding anything from Serbia.