OREANDA-NEWS. Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, who is in Russia on a working visit.

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon, Mr Prime Minister. I am very happy to see you.

I presume you already had some very constructive talks with your Russian counterpart.

We not only closely follow the developments in your country, but also try to take part in expanding our trade and economic ties. We have some very good projects, but we have even more opportunities.

I am very happy to see you. Welcome to Moscow.

PRIME MINISTER OF SERBIA ALEKSANDAR VUCIC: Mr President, I would like to begin by greeting you and thanking for your warm welcome. Your colleagues and I discussed everything yesterday, and I hope that today we will finalise the most important contract dealing with the South Stream.

One more time: I am very grateful for your invitation and your very warm welcome.

(Retranslated) I will continue in Serbian.

I am very grateful for the assistance with Kosovo and Metohija that we are receiving from you, and I am also very pleased that you wish to continue developing economic ties with us.

Thank you once again for the opportunity to meet with you. The entire Serbian delegation had a very hard day yesterday, but I believe that by the end of the today we will be able to say that both yesterday and today were very productive.

Thank you once again.