Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic

On April 27, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on the Serbian side’s initiative.

The sides confirmed mutual willingness to consolidate and develop strategic partnership between Russia and Serbia, and pursue close interaction in joint projects.

Mr Lavrov said Russia shared Serbia’s deep concerns over the politicised decision of a French appeals court which ruled to set free notorious Kosovo militant leader Ramush Haradinaj, thereby turning down Belgrade’s Interpol appeal.

We believe all the Kosovo politicians involved in war crimes must be held responsible regardless of their current posts.

The double standards of Paris are a vivid example of connivance in the face of the increasingly aggressive pursuit of the Greater Albania project capable of upsetting the fragile stability and causing a relapse of the bloody conflict in the Balkans.