MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday expressed disapproval of a proposal by his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, for abolishing the Quartet of Middle East mediators, a group whose members are the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.
"I don't think that it is a productive or realistic proposal," Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow.
Most countries would like the Quartet to make more intensive efforts and a proposal is being mulled over for a ministerial meeting of the mediating body, Lavrov said. "I think this is much more important than appeals to leave the Israelis and Palestinians on their own," he said.