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The US wants to work with Cyprus and ally Israel to buttress peace in the eastern Mediterranean and to head off Russian influence over the region's energy reserves, a senior US lawmaker said Monday.

They met in Belgrade and discussed further development of Serbia-Russia cooperation in all areas, the president's press service announced on Tuesday.

Addressing the Victory Day military parade in Red Square, Putin called on all countries to accept joint responsibility for creativing an effective security system "equal for all."

Putin spoke first, stressing right away that he was very pleased to be meeting with Vucic once again, the Kremlin announced on its website.

Kim's armored train departed the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok a day after talks that saw Putin back the North's need for "security guarantees" in its standoff with the United States.           

The two leaders are in China for the Belt and Road forum.

After a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vladivostok, Putin said at a press conference he was satisfied with the results of the talks.

Putin, who spoke the during plenary session of the International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg, referenced NATO's 1999 aerial war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, i.e., Serbia and Montenegro.

The former Georgian president thinks it could instead be a non-NATO European country, like Sweden or Finland.

"That's a logical sequence of events. Everything we agree on must go through some foreign body in order to gain international legitimacy, in order to verify what we have agreed," the Serbian foreign minister and first deputy PM has told Happy TV.