Lavrov said that NATO’s advance to the east is taking place in defiance of the alliance’s former obligations.

He stressed that the aim of Russia and its ally Belarus is defence of their borders. In this connection Lavrov said that the issue of possible setting up a Russian air base on Belarusian territory has nothing to do with missile defence.

Answering journalists’ questions Lavrov assured them that Moscow is not planning to sell S-300 missile defence systems to Syria. As for the previous contracts, Russia is completing deliveries of defensive weapons to Damascus.

Russia has no plans to sell S-300 to Syria; Moscow completing supplies of defensive weapons according to previous contracts – Lavrov

Russia has no plans to sell S-300 systems to Syria; Moscow is completing its deliveries of defensive weapons according to previous contracts, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today summarizing the results of his meeting with Polish and German Foreign Ministers Radoslaw Sikorski and Guido Westerwelle. The Voice of Russia correspondent reports.

Lavrov said that selling defensive weapons is not banned by any international rules.

Syria needs Russian defensive weapons to be able to protect itself from attacks from the air, that are far from being an unlikely prospect.

Western partners should have no concerns about Russian military base in Belarus – Lavrov

Western partners should not worry about the Russian military base in Belarus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian reporters.

“I see no reasons for such concerns,” he said.

Russia and Belarus are the Union State and a common space, including, from the military point of view, Lavrov emphasized.

Germany supports Russian and US initiative on Syria conference – Westerwelle

Germany supports the initiative of Russia and the US on convening an international conference on Syria, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced at the meeting with his counterparts from Russia and Poland Sergey Lavrov and Radoslaw Sikorski which is taking place in Warsaw, a correspondent of The Voice of Russia reports.

Russian, German and Polish FMs meet in Warsaw

A meeting of the Russian, German and Polish foreign ministers is took place in Warsaw.

During the meeting Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov, Guido Westerwelle and Radoslaw Sikorski discussed the progress in implementing the agreements reached at the previous meetings in Kaliningrad in May 2011 and Berlin in March 2012.

Voice of Russia, RIA, Interfax