We cannot comment on the alleged confidential information, but according to our knowledge, Serbia is not selling weapons to Ukraine, Radio Free Europe was told from the Embassy of the United States of America in Belgrade.
The Reuters agency announced on April 12, citing information from leaked secret Pentagon documents, that Serbia had agreed to send weapons to Kiev, or had already sent them.
Serbian Defense Minister Miloš Vučević and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić denied reports by the Reuters news agency that Serbia had agreed to deliver weapons to Kiev or had already sent them.
Vučević stated that "Serbia has not, nor will it, sell weapons to the Ukrainian or Russian side, nor to the countries surrounding that conflict", while the Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the country adheres to its policy of military neutrality.
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What do they say in the Ministry of Defense?
The Ministry of Defense of Serbia did not respond to Radio Free Europe's inquiry.
"Someone's goal is obviously to destabilize our country and drag it into a conflict in which we will not participate. We consistently stick to our established policy," said Vučević.
The minister noted that for the umpteenth time, the lie that Serbia sells weapons to Ukraine has been published.
"We have denied those falsehoods more than ten times, and here we are, we will do it again. Serbia has not, nor will it, sell weapons to the Ukrainian or Russian side, nor to the countries surrounding that conflict," said Vucevic.
The minister also stated that Serbia sells weapons to third parties, which are far from the conflict and have nothing to do with it.
"There is always the possibility that some weapon will somehow magically be found on the territory of the conflict, but that has absolutely nothing to do with Serbia. It is a question for those countries that do not respect international norms, contractual clauses and business practices. I repeat, Serbia did not send arms to Ukraine and everything published on that topic are untrue speculations," Vucevic said.
What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia say?
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic, in a denial on the institution's website, said that Serbia does not export weapons to any country if it would threaten regional peace.
"Serbia, respecting internal and international legal acts, does not export weapons and military equipment to any country if this would enable the outbreak or continuation of armed conflicts, endanger the preservation of regional peace and security, or endanger its defense interests," said Dacic.
He emphasized that Serbia adheres to its policy of military neutrality and implements the Conclusions of the National Security Council from February last year.
The head of diplomacy underlined once again that since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, no weapons have been exported from Serbia to any of the parties in the conflict, according to the statement.
He pointed out that permits for the export of weapons and military equipment of Serbia are issued exclusively to buyers with an End User Certificate, which, among other things, states that the end user cannot re-export weapons without the consent of the competent institutions of Serbia.
The document seen by Reuters, a summary of European governments' responses to Ukraine's requests for military training and "lethal aid" or weapons, is among dozens of classified documents released online in recent weeks in what it says could be the most serious disclosure of U.S. secrets of recent years.
The release of the chart comes just over a month after documents posted on a pro-Russian channel on the global messaging app Telegram allegedly showed the delivery of Serbian Grad 122mm rockets to Kiev in November.
The documents included a shipment manifest and a Ukrainian government end-user certificate.
Moscow announced in March that it had asked Belgrade for an official explanation of the alleged deliveries, the state news agency TASS reported, citing the statement of the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova.
Arms manufacturer Krušik from Valjevo denied that he had sent rockets or other weapons to Ukraine.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, called these allegations a "notorious lie".
Since the start of the war in February last year, Vučić has tried to balance close ties with Moscow with the goal of joining the European Union.
Serbia is the only one among 44 countries in Europe that rejects sanctions against Russia.
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