MOSCOW, September 25. /TASS/. The Kremlin admits that contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, on the gas contract could take place, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"We do not rule out such a contact," he said when asked how the Kremlin assesses the prospects for extending the agreement, and whether any contacts between Putin and Vucic on that matter are planned.

Aleksandar Vulin, leader of the Serbian Movement of Socialists party and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the state-owned enterprise Srbijagas, told TASS earlier that Serbia would like to prolong its gas supply agreement with Russia for the long term. Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic-Handanovic announced in June, following talks with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller in St. Petersburg, that the contract for Russian gas supplies to Belgrade, which was due to expire on June 30, had been extended for another three months.