Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin held talks in Moscow with top Russian political, military and security officials, said his office on Thursday.

It said that Vulin had meetings with Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council Sergei Shoigu, Russian Internal Affairs Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Russian Defense Ministry officials and the senior managers of Russia’s military-industrial complex.

“Vulin also had successful talks with Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksandr Grushko, whom he asked to convey to Minister Sergei Lavrov his gratitude for supporting Serbia at the United Nations General Assembly and voting against the Resolution on Srebrenica,” said the press release.

Vulin also met with the top officials of the most important Russian security services, said his office.

Serbian media reported that, during the Serbian state delegation’s visit to Moscow, Vulin on Tuesday laid flowers on the grave of former Soviet leader and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.