Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Russia’s Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Botsan Harchenko that the pipeline to supply natural gas to Serbia would be completed by the end of this year, the president’s cabinet said in a press release on Tuesday.

It added that they discussed agreements and projects in the energy industry as well as relations between the two countries, regional issues and the coronavirus pandemic with the ambassador informing the Serbian President about Russia’s work on a vaccine which the press release said would be made available to the Serbian public.

The press release said that they discussed the negotiations in Washington and Brussels with Kosovo officials.