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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States and some European countries of stoking East-West tensions in the Balkans ahead of a visit to Serbia this week.

In an interview with Serbia’s Beta news agency on February 19, Lavrov said the “anti-Russia” countries in the West were making Balkan states choose “either you are with the West or with Russia” as a condition of joining the EU and NATO.

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