Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to pay greater attention to the fight against trafficking in humans.

"We support the need for the OSCE to pay stronger attention to a shameful phenomenon such as human trafficking. We call on [this organization] to apply a comprehensive solution to this problem, including the trade in human organs and tissues," Lavrov said at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Kyiv on Thursday.

"Trafficking in humans is particularly outrageous," he said.

"Recently, the operations of online adoption exchanges were exposed that helped illegally transfer adopted children to other families, which frequently led to instances of sexual abuse," Lavrov said.

"Is there anyone who may think that such criminal methods of Internet use are permissible?" Lavrov said.

"Among other outrageous facts are attempts to legalize child euthanasia in one of Europe's countries and the overt functioning of a pedophile club in another one," the Russian minister said.

"All these examples are challenges to moral foundations, the foundations of Christianity and other world religions. Humans will cease to be humans if they stop to respect them," he said.