Putin: Russia has considerations about NIS, dialogue with friends in Serbia underway

Russian President has stated that Russia has “considerations” about how and in what direction the solving of the issue of Naftna industrija Srbija (NIS) might go and that dialogue with Serbia is underway, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

“We have considerations about how, in what way and in what direction we can move together. We have such dialogue underway with our friends in Serbia. We hope we will find the solution needed,” Putin said.

During the combined Direct Line Q&A session and year-end press conference, he said that Russia assumed that “friendly Serbia” would perform its obligations in respect of NIS company.

– We have the intergovernmental agreement with Serbia concerning adoption of any restrictions whatsoever in respect of this commercial organization. We certainly assume that the leaders of Serbia that are friendly to us will take it into account and will perform obligations they undertook. Otherwise the question arises: How to invest funds in the economy of the country? Where are the security guarantees if even intergovernmental agreements do not work? – Putin said.

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