{"id":37657,"date":"2022-06-06T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=37657"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:14:34","slug":"macedonian-mfa-explains-the-reason-for-closing-its-airspace-on-sergei-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/macedonian-mfa-explains-the-reason-for-closing-its-airspace-on-sergei-lavrov\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedonian MFA explains the reason for closing its airspace to Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was forced to cancel his visit to Serbia because 3 Balkan countries closed their airspaces to planes flying in from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>North Macedonia, Montenegro and Bulgaria were these 3 nations that rendered the Russian diplomat\u2019s visit to Serbia impossible.<\/p>\n<p>North Macedonia\u2019s MFA responded to Euronews Albania by confirming that they had in fact denied a request made by the Russian Embassy to pass through Macedonian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refused a request of the Russian Embassy for a permit to use our airspace for the flight to Belgrade. The reason for this was the fact that our government has already decided to close down our airspace to all aircraft traveling from the Russian Federation,\u201d \u2013 said the ministry\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>The cancelation of Lavrov\u2019s visit was also confirmed by the Russian MFA.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian diplomat was set to arrive in Belgrade on Monday, where he would stay for 2-day visit.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov would meet with Serbian president Alexandar Vucic, the chief of diplomacy and parliament speaker, Ivica Dacic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/05\/31\/kosovo-is-part-of-serbia-vucic-gets-sworn-in\/\">\u2018Kosovo is part of Serbia\u2019, Vucic gets sworn in<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/05\/18\/vucic-admits-to-mounting-pressure-from-the-west-over-kosovo\/\">Vucic admits to mounting pressure from the West over Kosovo<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/05\/17\/serbia-pm-refers-to-kosovo-bid-to-join-coe-as-pinnacle-of-cynicism\/\">Serbia PM refers to Kosovo bid to join CoE as \u2018pinnacle of cynicism<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu37361\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was forced to cancel his visit to Serbia because 3 Balkan countries closed their airspaces to planes flying in from Russia. North Macedonia, Montenegro and Bulgaria were these 3 nations that rendered the Russian diplomat\u2019s visit to Serbia impossible. North Macedonia\u2019s MFA responded to Euronews Albania by confirming that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":37659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Macedonian MFA explains the reason for closing its airspace to Lavrov - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/macedonian-mfa-explains-the-reason-for-closing-its-airspace-on-sergei-lavrov\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Macedonian MFA explains the reason for closing its airspace to Lavrov - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was forced to cancel his visit to Serbia because 3 Balkan countries closed their airspaces to planes flying in from Russia. 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