Lawyer Srdjan Aleksic, one of the initiators of a lawsuit against NATO, would travel to Moscow on 19 October to attend the Assembly of the Russian International Lawyers Association, Sputnik reports today.
Aleksic said he has already received support from the Russian and Chinese colleagues to prepare a lawsuit against NATO, but also from the lawyers from some EU countries so the international team is slowly being prepared.
First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic is leading a Serbian delegation that is visiting Moscow today, Tanjug news agency reported
This is according to the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement.
Dacic, who is co-chair of the Serbian part of the Inter-Governmental Serbian-Russian Committee for Trade, Economic, Science and Technological Cooperation, will speak with his Russian counterpart in the Committee, and Deputy Russian PM Dmitry Rogozin.
Chairman of NATO's Military Committee Petr Pavel says there are reasons for concern over Russia-Belarus military maneuvers Zapad (West) 2017.
According to him, the exercise "could be seen" a "serious preparations for big war," Serbian media reported
In addition, Pavel also said that NATO was "not competing with Russia for the Western Balkans".
He told AP on Saturday that NATO was "increasing efforts to reestablish the military-to-military communications with Russia to avoid any unintended consequences of potential incidents during the exercise.”
The EU will try to, through accession talks chapter 31, "force Serbia to change its attitude towards Russia - but Belgrade could still remain close to Russia," Sputnik reported.
It further said that Serbia will start negotiations on the chapter, that relates to alignment of foreign and security policy, in October.
This chapter is particularly sensitive to Serbia because it is military neutral and because it has close ties with the Russian Federation - and has not imposed sanctions on Moscow.
America and its NATO allies are preparing for a fierce anti-Russian media offensive in our country, writes the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.
The paper said it learned that a portion of the USD 250 million that the US Congress has allocated to the Countering Russian Influence Fund for fiscal years 2017 and 2018, will soon arrive in Serbia.
President of the Serbian List Goran Rakić and Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić will meet in Moscow a high delegation of the ruling Russian Party "United Russia", reports KIM radio. One of the topics of the discussion will be and the upcoming local elections in Kosovo.
Russia will continue to try to influence the events in the Balkans, where Serbia is its most important link that serves as a launching ground.
This is according to Beta, which quoted Mark Galeotti of the Institute of International Relations Prague, who spoke for Radio Free Europe's Bosnia-Herzegovina/Serbia/Montenegro service.
Belgrade based daily Danas writes today, based on unofficial diplomatic sources, that the United States and Germany are considering who will be their envoys in the next phase of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and that it is expected that the decision on their names would be made and disclosed in a month time.
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called on the EU "to bring the Balkans into its orbit."
In an interview for Germany's Handelsblatt, quoted by Tanjug, Kurz "warned of the growing influence of Turkey and Saudi Arabia."
"In Sarajevo and Pristina, for example, women are paid to wear the full veil in public. We cannot look on and do nothing," the Austrian minister said.
Western intrusion into traditional Russian spheres of influence, areas under the sway of Moscow for three centuries or more, represents a highly provocative and destabilizing policy.
Note: this article is part of a symposium on U.S.-Russia relations included in the September/October 2017 issue of the National Interest.