“In light of the announcement of the cancellation of EuroPride, the EU calls on the Serbian authorities to continue contacts with the organizers in order to find a solution and host EuroPride in an atmosphere of peace and security,” RIA Novosti quoted the EU Foreign Service as saying.
Brussels expressed the hope that close partners of the European Union will be committed to the "protection of human rights."
Earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the country's authorities were canceling the all-European gay pride parade scheduled for mid-September in Belgrade in light of the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija and other problems and tasks.