Lavrov Says Russia Won’t Wait ‘Endlessly’ for Security Deal
- Talks’ outcome depends on U.S., Russian foreign minister says
- Security talks this week ended without agreement on next steps
Sergei Lavrov during a news conference in Moscow on Jan. 14.
Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
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Russia won’t wait “endlessly” for a security deal with NATO and progress depends on the U.S., Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday, keeping up pressure after a week of high-level talks with the West failed to yield noticeable progress.
“We’re waiting for written responses from our colleagues” in the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Lavrov told reporters at a Moscow news conference. “I would like to stress above all that we need legally-binding guarantees because political commitments made in the 1990s were never respected by our Western partners.”