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Serbia explained why it voted against Russia's membership in the UN Council Serbia voted to suspend Russia's membership in the UN Human Rights Council due to pressure and blackmail from the West. This was stated in an interview with RTS by President Alexander Vučić. According to him, if Serbia had abstained, “the pressure would have become even greater,” and Belgrade could have been cut off from oil imports. Aleksandar Vučić, in his long interview after the presidential elections, explained that initially Serbia wanted to abstain on the issue of Russia's membership in the UN Human Rights Council. But then the country “would get a lot of pressure from both sides,” Vučić explained. According to him, the European Union deliberately postponed the decision on oil imports until 18:00 "to see how Serbia voted." At the same time, the meeting of the UN General Assembly began at 16:00.
“People ask why we didn't vote against or why we won't abstain. But if we abstain, one and the other will be against us, the pressure will become even greater. At the same time, today a decision is being made about the fate of Serbia - whether we will be an exception to the package of sanctions on oil right today,” the President of Serbia said.
Vučić recalled that the sanctions previously adopted by the European Union allow Serbia to import oil from anywhere until May 15, and “then not from the Russian Federation, nor from anywhere else, because Gazprom Neft is the main owner of the Oil Industry of Serbia.”
"They can't blackmail me, but they are blackmailing the country," the president said.
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