“We hope that the nations of the West, accustomed as they are to take advantage of what is happening in various countries to promote their interests to the detriment of the interests of other parties, will this time avoid engaging in their color revolutions,” Lavrov told reporters at the end of a Foreign Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

The minister noted that Moscow is closely following the development of the situation and hopes that the authorities of Serbia, “a friendly country” according to him, will manage to “calm the protests in the context of the Constitution and the law,” as promised by President Aleksandar Vucic.

“We stress the readiness of the Serbian government to talk, which is the way to resolve any issue,” Lavrov concluded.

In the same vein, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the same statement Monday during an appearance before the press in Moscow. “We do not doubt that the current leadership of Serbia will be able to restore order and calm in the republic,” he said.

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