Serbian MFA summons Ukraine's charge d'affairs

Serbian MFA summons Ukraine's charge d'affairs

BELGRADE -- Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić over the weekend on "invited the Ukrainian embassy charge d'affaires to a meeting," Tanjug has reported.

The meeting was "to discuss Ukraine's promotional video about joining the EU that featured a map of Europe without Serbia."

"It constituted an offense to Serbia, so Mrkić 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, Croatian website 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 the website, since Serbia was removed from the map, many claim it was a provocation because of Serbia's close ties with Russia.

The video itself was uploaded to YouTube in September 2013, before the current crisis in Ukraine.