MOSCOW, June 6 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was forced to cancel a visit to Serbia on Monday after several of its neighbours prevented his plane from passing through their airspace, officials said.
“The countries around Serbia have closed the channel of communication by refusing to authorise the overflight of the plane of Sergei Lavrov who was headed to Serbia,” Russian news agencies quoted ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying. A Russian diplomatic source told news agency Interfax there had been no choice but to cancel the visit.Lavrov had been due to meet President Aleksandar Vucic, his counterpart Nikola Selakovic and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije.
“We know Lavrov is lying; he knows he is lying, he knows we know he is lying, we know he knows we know he is lying, but he is still lying. ” - Attributed to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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