Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabić stated today that she does not think the visit to Belgrade by nine members of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee is overly important, "I think what is important are visits by officials who announce themselves or are invited, and then you arrange a date."
"These are important visits, not if someone comes like a tourist and knocks on your door. We neither invited them nor arranged anything, nor did they consult us about the date," Brnabić told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), when asked about the fact that neither she nor President Aleksandar Vučić will be in Belgrade during the visit.
She added that she "assumes that it is not particularly important for EU parliamentarians to meet with us" and believes that they will meet in the Serbian Parliament with "blockade members from the former government, with whom they requested two meetings."
She stated that one was with the parliamentary groups, and "the blockaders from the former government requested another individual meeting with them, I assume they are ashamed to say what they intend to say in front of all the other parliamentary groups."
In response to comments that the government's actions represent an abandonment of European integration, she responded that there are several hundred MEPs, "so since (nine of them) are relevant, President Vučić spoke on the phone with the President of the European Council yesterday."
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