Serbia seeks explanation for map of Europe without Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic has invited the Ukrainian embassy charge d'affaires to a meeting to discuss Ukraine's promotional video about joining the EU that featured a map of Europe without Serbia.

It constituted an offence to Serbia, so Mrkic requested a meeting so he could inform the Ukrainian official about Serbia's view regarding the incident, the Foreign Ministry has stated.

The video shows Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk explaining why Ukraine should become a member of the EU.

Although Serbia is mentioned in relation to it starting the accession talks with the EU, it is not on the map of Europe, Index.hr reported.

The map in the video shows EU countries, but all of the countries of the former Yugoslavia are erased and the entire territory is labelled Croatia.

According to Index.hr, since Serbia was removed from the map, many claim it was a provocation because of Serbia's close ties with Russia.