PARIS. Sept 7 (Interfax) - Direct talks between Palestinians and Israeli will not be an easy process, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"We are keen to see the direct talks between Palestinians and Israeli lead to a result, but this will not be an easy thing to do," he told a press conference in Paris on Tuesday.
"There is a complex history of preparations for these talks," he recalled.
At the talks in Paris Russia and France have come to a unanimous view "that it would be no harm to get the Quartet of the Middle East mediators to be directly involved in supporting this process," he said.
"We can only welcome the beginning of the direct talks. We would have liked these negotiations to begin on a more comprehensible basis, but something is better than nothing," the minister said.
"The chance of these talks yielding a result is far from 100%," he said.
"Differences exist on all the issues related to the creation of the Palestinian State and definition of its final status. But the chance is there," Lavrov said.
Commenting to a journalist on Russian officials' absence at the opening of the direct talks, Lavrov said: "As for the ceremony proper of launching these talks, I think the main thing is not a picture on a TV screen but the result."
"We are all waiting anxiously about what will happen after September 26 when the settlement moratorium expires," Lavrov said.
"It is much more important to prevent these talks from being disrupted on September 26 and to make sure that all those who can influence the situation do so," the Russian foreign minister said.