Serbs worried: Why do American presidents bypass Serbia?

Since NATO's attacks on Serbian police and military targets in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia, no US president has visited Serbia. As they have visited Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo, Serbian media ask the question: Why are they bypassing Serbia?

“A has alive in the American Administration, which remembers who was the last American president to visit Belgrade?”, has asked Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic a few days ago, commenting on the topic of Russian influence in Serbia.

No one has the right to complain. They're guilty of”.

Since 1980, since President Jimmy Carter had visited the former Yugoslavia, no American president has stepped foot in Belgrade. Before him were Richard Nixon (1970) and Gerald Ford (1975). Meanwhile, the region, but not Serbia, has visited: Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Obama had avoided this part of Europe, writes Blic, broadcast Telegrafi.

There were four presidents in Croatia Bill Clinton (1996) and George W. Bush (2008) In Slovenia, Bush was twice. In Hungary there were George Bush the Old and the Young. Clinton was twice. The new Bush and Clinton were also in Bulgaria and Romania, while in Macedonia there were only Clinton, who has been in Bosnia and Herzegovina twice as well. Clinton has also visited Kosovo in 1999, while the new Bush visited Albania in 2007 and Kosovo in 2001 when it was visiting Bondsteel base.

Milan Protic, former Serbia's ambassador to the US, says that countries in the region have better reports with Americans, as opposed to Serbia.

I've been aiming to bring Bush. He promised, but then terrorist attacks on September 11th” took place, he says, adding that such a visit is no easy task.
Former US ambassador Ivan Vujacic says: "The “many things have changed. Until late in Serbia, two Hague fugitives were hiding, and we are not politically the ones we were in the time of Tito”.

The last two Serbian officials to have accepted an American president were Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, who met in Washington with George W. Bush. /Telegraphy/