UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The Middle East Quartet on Israeli-Palestinian settlement has been unable to achieve progress under the current conditions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
"The [Middle East] Quartet is not silent. The Quartet adopted yesterday a statement which says almost everything we wanted to say, including [on] the settlements, including other unilateral steps, including the need to implement resolutions of the United Nations on the state of Palestine, on Jerusalem and so forth," Lavrov told reporters.
"The Quartet, unfortunately, can only speak at this time. It is not silent, but it does not do more than speaking… Everyone expresses dissatisfaction with this deadlock, but so far we are not able to move forward," he continued.
