VIENNA, 01 February 2022, (TON): The Russian side handed over to the Austrian Foreign Ministry a message from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed to his Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg outlining Moscow’s approaches to the European security architecture and is awaiting a prompt response from partners.

Dmitry Lyubinsky, Russian Ambassador to Vienna, announced this.

The diplomat noted “during a personal meeting, we handed over to our colleagues at the Austrian Foreign Ministry a message from S. Lavrov addressed to A. Schallenberg with a detailed statement of our fundamental approaches to the principle of ensuring equal and indivisible security, which is fundamental for the entire European security architecture.”

“We expect a prompt response from Austrian partners and a clear answer in their national capacity to the question of how they understand the obligation not to strengthen their own security at the expense of the security of other states based on the principle of the indivisibility of security, enshrined, in particular, in the documents of the OSCE summits in Istanbul in November 1999 and in Astana in December 2010″.