MOSCOW – Russia is committed to finding a diplomatic solution to , and to helping reduce tensions in all areas, including around Venezuela and Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
“We remain committed, as President (Vladimir) Putin has repeatedly stressed, to finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis,” Lavrov told an annual press conference on Russian diplomacy in 2025.
There has never been a lack of goodwill on the part of Russia to resolve the Ukraine crisis, but the West has sought to sabotage all agreements, Lavrov added.
On global issues, he noted that “we are interested in helping to reduce tensions in all areas that have now escalated and which I have listed, be it Venezuela or especially the Iranian situation.”
The top Russian diplomat called for respect for Iran’s right to peacefully use nuclear energy, adding that it serves as a key to de-escalating tensions with Tehran.
Lavrov said that the contemporary world operates under the principle of “might makes right,” as the rules “supposedly underpinning the world order favored by the West have all been cast aside,” with crises increasing within Western societies.
Constructive envoy meeting of US, Russia
Russia’s presidential special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said his meeting with US presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff in Davos, Switzerland was constructive, the Russian daily Izvestia reported on Tuesday.
“The meeting is proceeding constructively, and more and more people are realizing the correctness of Russia’s position,” he said.
Dmitriev held talks with Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.
Witkoff described the talks that lasted over two hours as “very positive” when asked by the media.