- Foreign Affairs says it hopes that the blockade "is not part of the attempts to prevent" its position on Kosovo.
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Serbia denounces the "censorship" of Twitter after closing several accounts of its embassies
The Serbian government has denounced that Twitter has suspended the accounts of several of its embassies without explanation, describing this blockade as "censorship" of diplomatic missions of a democratic country, which is not sanctioned.
In a statement, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the accounts of the Serbian embassies in Armenia, Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Kuwait, as well as that of the consulate general in Chicago, have been blocked since August 18.
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There has been "no argument, or previous message, indicating possible violations of the communication rules on that social network," says the note, published today by the local press.
The ministry recalls that Serbia is a country that aspires to join the European Union (EU) and that, therefore, it has political and democratic standards that include freedom of the press and the media, in accordance with "the most elevated".
"That is why it is absurd that a series of our diplomatic-consular representations are censored in a social network that presumes to promote democracy and pluralism of opinions," reads the statement.
Foreign Affairs has requested the unblocking of its accounts and says that it hopes that the blockade "is not part of the attempts to prevent" Serbia from expressing its positions on the situation in Kosovo, its former province that unilaterally proclaimed its independence in 2008, not recognized by Belgrade.
The Serbian media had reported last week a temporary suspension of the Twitter accounts of the director of the Serbian Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora in the region, the former French politician Arnaud Guillon, as well as a dozen deputies from the ruling SNS party.
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