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the U.S. actions and stressing the importance of Russia's role.
During my meeting with S. Milosevic on April 13, I mentioned my intention to pay a visit
to the patriarch at the behest of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia. Milosevic
spoke in glowing terms about the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, which, according
to him, enjoyed great respect in Yugoslavia and was perceived as a sincere friend of the
Serbs.
A Russian diplomat, especially in a country so close to us historically as Serbia, can always
be of interest to local residents, and contact with him is a matter of prestige to many of
them. Of course, it is necessary to cut off "riffraff," all sorts of scoundrels who seek con-
tacts for purely selfish motives, but it is wrong to reject those who can be useful, as is
sometimes the case here.