First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic has met and greeted this evening, at the airport, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Minister Dacic welcomed his counterpart and friend Sergey Lavrov and expressed great pleasure at meeting him again.

The Head of Serbian Diplomacy reiterated that the visit by the Russian President was an exceptionally important event in the long history of friendly relations between the two countries.

Minister Lavrov is on a visit to Belgrade as a member of the Delegation headed by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.