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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia should have been shut down long ago because it is biased against Serbs.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia should have been shut down a long time ago, because it proved its bias.

The dialogue between Russian and Serbian presidents, based on trust, encourages development of bilateral cooperation in all fields.

This is what Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic, who was in Moscow on Friday.

"Our relations are on the rise in all areas," Lavrov said, according to TASS.

The situation in the Balkans was in focus of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on the sidelines of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is in New York for the 72nd General Assembly of the United Nations, met with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono and said that the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula requires all sides of the region to constantly interact with one another and look for a way out of the crisis, writes Russian newspaper Moskovski Komsomolets.

The US and some of the EU countries are obsessed with the idea of mastering the Balkans once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

ST PETERSBURG - Serbia's Acting PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov in St Petersburg on Friday, reiterating the position that Serbia would never impose sanctions on Russia.

MOSCOW - Russian FM Sergey Lavrov will on Friday meet with Serbian FM Ivica Dacic on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Maria Zakharova, spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced on Wednesday.

Lavrov will also meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, TASS reported Zakharova as saying.

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Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will take part in the upcoming St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) and is expected to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Serbian Ambassador to Russia Slavenko Terzic told Sputnik.

The differences between Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus over energy exploration in the island’s EEC (exclusive economic zone) should be resolved with dialogue and peaceful means, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.