Lavrov says a position paper on collective security exists

Statement at the forum in Moscow

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the international security forum in Moscow, said that Moscow has a position paper on which a new collective security framework could be built. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru citing RIA Novosti. According to the minister, he hopes that this time the US administration will have enough resolve to bring the dialogue to an honest balance of interests of all parties, in which no one's security is infringed. At the same time, Lavrov clarified that he does not know how to achieve this: 'That remains to be understood. We have our own position paper.'

Context: talks in Abu Dhabi

On the same day, November 10, Lavrov said that at the trilateral talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi, which began that day, the central topic would be ensuring collective security in the region. According to him, the initiative to put security issues front and center came from the American side and was agreed with Moscow. Thus, the statement about the position paper came against the backdrop of the talks that had begun; however, the content of the document itself is not disclosed in the publication, and nothing is yet known about its specific provisions.