SINGAPORE. July 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on the United States to take tangible steps to promote confidence-building measures in the missile defense area.
"We attached special significance to the need to clarify the missile defense issue, as transparency- and confidence-building measures promised to us by our American partners have still not materialized into something tangible," Lavrov told Russian journalists following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday.
Lavrov also said he had discussed with Rice, "all issues on the bilateral agenda and prospects for interaction on international and regional affairs."