Yee to Serbia: You do what you like - but Russians are suspicious

Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Hoyt Brian Yee says his country "doesn't oppose Russia's helping in humanitarian crises and emergencies."

However, Washington is suspicious of the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in the town of Nis, he told the Belgrade weekly NIN in an interview quoted by Beta.

"I do not know that humanitarian workers in other places need diplomatic immunity. Because of all that, we believe Russia has other intentions with this center," said Yee, and added:

"There is much publicly available information, but also information that is less public, but the main question is why Russia wants to make this center in Nis, with diplomatic immunity for their personnel. I have not yet heard a good explanation for that."

Asked how the US would respond if Serbia ended up approving diplomatic immunity for the personnel of the Russian...