Response to U.S. on security guarantee proposals to be published several hours after being sent to Washington - Lavrov

MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Russia will send a reply to the United States on security guarantee proposals both on paper and in an electronic form, and the response will be published on Thursday, several hours after it is sent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"We are planning to send it both on paper and in the electronic form. [The response will be published] practically several hours after we send it to the Americans, we are planning to do it today," Lavrov said at a press conference on Thursday.