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Serbia won't change Russia policy, expects Lavrov's visit

VIENNA -- Serbia respects the territorial integrity of UN member-states, but will never adopt measures against Russia or oppose Moscow.

This is what Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said at a Council of Europe ministerial meeting in Vienna on Tuesday.

“Serbia remains a loyal friend of Russia,” Ivica Dacic, Serbia's Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on the sidelines of a ministerial session of the Council of Europe held in Vienna on Tuesday.

Russia's Lavrov says his country "doesn't do regime change"

VIENNA -- "We don't do regime change, we don't do color revolutions, let alone brown-hued ones like those in Ukraine," Russian FM Sergei Lavrov said in Vienna.

Dačić attends Council of Europe ministerial meeting

VIENNA -- First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dačić is in Vienna where he will take part in the 124th ministerial meeting of the Council of Europe, the Serbian MFA said.

Upon arriving in Vienna, Dačić conferred with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz late on Monday, according to the ministry.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has extended an official invitation to Greece's leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras to visit Russia, Skai reported Tuesday.

Tsipras has been invited to visit the country in the first half of May, the report said.

Russia will respond if its interests in Ukraine are attacked, the country's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

A US warship heading towards the Black Sea passed through the Dardanelles Strait on Tuesday.

USS Taylor was already deployed in the sea back in February, during the Sochi Olympics.

The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of violating the Geneva agreement adopted last week, after an incident in the Ukrainian town of Slaviansk left three dead.

Its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared Kiev had not taken steps to disarm armed groups, which was one of the points in April 17's deal aiming at de-escalating tensions in southern and eastern Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to continue contacts in the interests of the soonest normalization of the situation in Ukraine.

Participants in Geneva's four-way meeting have agreed on measures to wind down tensions in the east and south of Ukraine.