Lavrov said that Russia does not intend to be dragged into an arms race with the European Union.
Russia is not going to be dragged into a new arms race in Europe, it offers to negotiate a new system of mutual security guarantees, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "Our proposal is not to revive a bankrupt enterprise or to harness ourselves against the will of the people to a new arms race, but to assess the situation in an honest and realistic manner, and through joint efforts, to begin to eliminate the accumulation of mistakes and misunderstandings, and to pave the way for a truly fair system of mutual guarantees," he said at the meeting of the four Minsk Plenums of the European Union.