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08-16-2016, 11:48 PM #1
Serbian ultra-nationalists chant 'Vote for Trump' as Joe Biden visits
AUGUST 17 2016 - 5:32AM
'Vote for Trump' Serbian ultra-nationalists chant as Joe Biden visits
Ivana Sekularac and Fedja Grulovic
Belgrade: Hundreds of Serbian ultra-nationalists protested on Tuesday against US Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Belgrade by chanting their support for Donald Trump.
"Vote for Trump! Vote for Trump!" the protesters, wearing T-shirts displaying an image of the US Republican candidate, shouted as they gathered near the Serbian presidency building.
Biden was on a one-day visit to Belgrade before travelling to Kosovo to encourage both countries to do more to normalise their relations.
The United States is highly popular among Kosovars, who regard Washington as their saviour for the 1999 air strikes that halted killings of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces waging a counter-insurgency war.
But resentment remains high in Belgrade over NATO's air strikes, whose vestiges can be seen in battered ex-Defence Ministry buildings in the centre of the Serbian capital.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but Serbia does not recognise its former southern province as sovereign.
"Trump is the alternative to globalisation. He will destroy old centres of power in the United States and he is a supporter of Russia," Vojislav Seselj, head of Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radical Party, said when asked why he was backing Trump.
Biden, who was meeting government officials in another part of town, offered condolences for the Serbs who lost their lives in the air strikes, the first high-ranking US official to do so.
US Vice President Joe Biden dances with street actress Ljiljana jaksic, known by her
professional name Salveta in downtown Belgrade, Serbia. Photo: AP
"I'd like to express my condolences to the families of those whose lives were lost in the wars of the 1990s, including those killed as a consequence of the NATO air strikes," Biden told reporters before taking a walk with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in a picturesque borough of Belgrade, under high security.
Biden, a Democrat, said on Monday Trump's remark that President Barack Obama had founded Islamic State had increased threats to the safety of US troops in Iraq.
Trump's volatile campaign, which has included calls for a border wall with Mexico to keep out immigrants and a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, has pricked the interest of right-wing and nationalist leaders abroad.
Seselj, who was acquitted in March of war crimes by the UN tribunal in The Hague, urged Serbian-Americans to vote for Trump in the November US presidential election.
Victims of atrocities in Bosnia's 1992-95 war reacted with dismay in March to the acquittal of Seselj, who was accused of stoking murderous ethnic hatred with fiery rhetoric in the conflicts that accompanied federal Yugoslavia's break-up into seven successor states and killed 130,000 people.
Seselj's Radicals are the third largest party in the Serbian parliament.
Serbian ultra-nationalists chant 'Vote for Trump' as Joe Biden visits
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08-16-2016, 11:53 PM #2
Hundreds of Trump supporters crash Biden's visit to Serbia
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By ANNA GIARITELLI • 8/16/16 6:21 PM
Vice President Joe Biden was in for a surprise Tuesday during his visit to Serbia's capital city, Belgrade. Hundreds of members of the country's nationalist Radical Party showed up at the presidential building, sporting T-shirts and signs and chanting support for Republican nominee Donald Trump.
"Vote for Trump! Vote for Trump!" the protesters yelled in unison, according to multiple reports. Their shirts and signs were decked out in matching images of the billionaire businessman's face.
Biden was meeting with national leaders in a different part of the city in a bid to improve diplomatic relations between Serbia and Kosovo. Serbia has not recognized Kosovo as its own nation since the latter declared its independence in 2008, prompting national disputes about the country's ability to divide itself.
Founder of the far-right Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, told supporters in November he approved of Trump. The party is the third-largest national political group.
"Trump is the alternative to globalization. He will destroy old centers of power in the United States and he is a supporter of Russia," Seselj told Reuters.
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