Iran's team is new, but they adapted quickly and professionally. They prepared proposals that some Western participants didn't take well at first but then admitted that they deserve to be analyzed.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Provocateurs in Kiev ... could try to 'whip something up' in the expectation that this will influence the world public and weapons will flow into Ukraine, i am convinced that Berlin and Paris, as the most important players ..., should prevent such a turn of events.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

If you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

I say every time: if you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to - which it is, I don't know, so before demanding from us that we stop doing something, please present proof that we have done it.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

We hope the contacts to be held in a foreseeable future at various levels and in various formats will help move ahead in this direction.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Those who decide not to take part in this event, they will lose in terms of their positions in the peace talks process as a whole.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

But it should be understood that the crisis will continue until the Ukrainians, without prompters from Brussels or Washington, agree about it among themselves.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

There are a few Western countries that want to maintain the crisis in Ukraine and to maintain and boost the confrontation between Ukraine and Russia, including through provocative efforts toward membership in the Atlantic alliance, the very idea of Ukraine's efforts to join NATO are dangerous, not only for Ukrainian people, because there is no unity over that issue, it is dangerous for European security.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

The draft law to reject Ukraine's neutral status as well as the order from Petro Alexeyevich Poroshenko about the economic blockade of the southeast (Ukraine) is a tribute to the rhetoric that the party of war in Kiev thirsts after.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

So far from what we hear from the majority of our interlocutors, both in the opposition and the government of Syria, we can be optimistic that this process (of talks) could at least be tried early next year.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

We would be supportive of his efforts. by Russian Foreign Minister Serge...

We would be supportive of his efforts.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

We warn that at some stage of the development of the American missile defence systems, we will have to take adequate measures to ensure our own security, we don't intend to get drawn into an expensive arms race but we will provide the defensive capabilities of our country reliably.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

We expect the ceasefire to take effect in full from Dec. 9 ... The ceasefire was announced before. It led to a considerable easing in violence but not to a full (halt of fighting).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Our Western colleagues, some European countries but Americans first and foremost ... if they want to try to present us as the main culprits, which is what they are constantly doing ... this is not right, this won't work.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

We got assurances from the high representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that Pyongyang is ready for the restart of six-party talks, without pre-conditions.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Finland and Sweden, as well as other neutral countries, have been participating in NATO military exercises for many years.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

The negotiations are difficult for obvious reasons, but nonetheless there is a certain hope for reaching a compromise.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

The West clearly has lost self-control in venting anger against Russia and has destroyed its own rules and institutions, including respect for private property, it’s necessary to put an end to the arrogant Western philosophy of self-superiority, exclusivity and total permissiveness.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Today the dangers that [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy's regime pose for neighboring countries and international security in general have increased substantially after the authorities set up in Kyiv have embarked upon dangerous games related to plans to acquire their own nuclear weapons.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

We want to do this in January, including to involve the negotiating platform to discuss the draft agreement between Russia and the NATO countries( on security guarantees).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov