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Source: AFP
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic asked Vladimir Putin during a gathering Friday to support providing his state with cut-price gas, an statement the Russian person said they would "definitely" discuss.
Serbia is negotiating a caller multi-year state woody with Russia up of the expiration of a three-year proviso statement that runs until the extremity of May.
Belgrade is heavy reliant connected Russia for its state needs and pays conscionable $275 per 1,000 cubic metres nether its existent declaration with Moscow -- acold little than the existent marketplace complaint successful Europe.
The European Union has often voiced interest astir Belgrade's adjacent ties with Moscow and has called connected Serbia to align its overseas and information policies with those of the bloc.
In a televised gathering with Vucic astatine the Kremlin, Putin said that Russia remained a "guarantor of Serbia's energy security" and that the 2 would "definitely discuss" supplies by state-controlled state elephantine Gazprom to Serbia.
Vucic acknowledged that Serbia was receiving Russian state connected "very favourable" terms.
"Thank you for that. We anticipation that it volition beryllium imaginable for america to support these conditions and, if I whitethorn accidental so, adjacent amended them," Vucic said successful fluent Russian.
Serbia, which is not a subordinate of the EU but is seeking to join, has maintained adjacent ties with Russia passim Moscow's Ukraine violative and has not joined the bloc successful imposing sanctions connected Russia.
Source: AFP
