Security Council

Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev has proposed a memorandum of understanding to the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP).

Under the proposal, the memorandum would be signed in 2017.

A Russian delegation headed by the chief of the Security Council of the RF Nikolai Patrushev will visit Belgrade for meetings with Serbian officials.

Sputnik is reporting, quoting an associate of Patrushev, that the following topics could be on the table: international terrorism, the migrant crisis, and extremism in Kosovo and Metohija.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently discussed possible supplies of Russian air defense systems to Ankara, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Oct. 14. 

BELGRADE - Russia respects Serbia's balanced policy, Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin said Monday, announcing that senior Russian officials would visit Serbia in the next two months and reiterating Moscow was not against Serbia's EU accession.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Oct. 10 asked once again the Security Council to formally request that the International Criminal Court (ICC) begin investigations of war crimes in Syria.
Such a request was blocked in 2014 by Russia and China, which have veto powers, but Ban said the council should try again.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancelled his visit to France for a meeting with his French counter-part François Hollande, reported Reuters.

Earlier, the French President questioned the expediency of a meeting with Putin after Russia rejected in the Security Council of the UN the draft resolution of France and Italy for the creation of a no-fly zone over Aleppo.

BELGRADE - The statement made by the British Envoy to the United Nations on Saturday came less than 48 hours after the "moderate" and "peaceful" rebels signed an agreement to start fighting alongside a Daesh (ISIS) offshoot Jund al-Aqsa in addition to al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front.

BELGRADE - Russia respects Serbia's balanced policy, Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin said Monday, announcing that senior Russian officials would visit Serbia in the next two months and reiterating Moscow was not against Serbia's EU accession.

Russia on Oct. 8 vetoed a United Nations draft resolution demanding an end to the bombing of Syria's war-battered city of Aleppo, despite an appeal from France to save the city from destruction.

After being unsuccessful in the round of voting, Irina Bokova is on the way of becoming Deputy Secretary General of the UN, reported The Guardian, cited by Nova TV and Darik radio.

"It is claimed that the Russians are furious that, under pressure from the European Union, Bulgaria nominated another candidate - European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva," writes the newspaper.