MOSCOW. Oct 1 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he expects international consultations on problems of security on the European continent to start within coming months.
"We expected that such discussions would have started by now, but the Caucasus crisis has somewhat changed the agenda. Consultations between the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization] members are planned at our initiative in the near future. There is understanding with a number of Western European countries on holding consultations on the same subject. I think such consultations will be very intensive within the next three or four months," Lavrov said in an interview published in Izvestia.
"Having absorbed our partners' ideas, it would be possible to propose a particular action plan and invite Euro-Atlantic region countries to join this dialogue," he said.
"There is the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe], there is NATO, there is the European Union's security and defense policy, there is the CSTO, and there are some bodies within the OSCE that are supposed to consult us but that for some reason do not," he said.
"Until we understand who exactly is responsible for the implementation of these or those principles, problems will keep arising. This is exactly why President Medvedev has proposed discussing this all openly and without emotions," Lavrov said.