Vucic meets with Botsan-Kharchenko, requests start of consultations on NIS

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Tuesday and requested a start of consultations and meetings on NIS operations after the US imposed sanctions on the Russian majority-owned oil company.

In a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account, Vucic wrote that he had had a "good and open meeting" with Botsan-Kharchenko and that they had discussed the consequences of US sanctions against Russian companies for NIS.

"In line with an intergovernmental agreement between Serbia and the Russian Federation, I requested from our Russian friends a start of consultations and the holding of numerous meetings about the functioning of NIS in the future and finding the best solution in mutual interest and the needs to preserve the partnership and friendly relations between Serbia and the Russian Federation," Vucic wrote in the post.

Vucic and Botsan-Kharchenko also discussed all other bilateral issues of interest to Belgrade and Moscow.