Lavrov: Russia not interested in stirring crisis between Athens, Brussels

13:25, 09.07.2015 1 min read

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed the interest of Moscow in the soonest possible resolution of the Greece crisis.

"Despite speculations by certain media outlets, we have no interest in adding fuel to this fire," he said at a press briefing in Ufa, in response to a request for comment on the Greece crisis.

"Our position has been presented more than once by the Russian president. The point is that we are interested in the soonest [possible] arrival at a mutually acceptable solution to the problem of the Greek debt and methods of resolution of this problem," the Russian minister said.

In the words of Lavrov, "there have been attempts to accuse [Russia] of sitting and rubbing its hands while watching Greece quarrel with Brussels, Paris and Berlin."

"This is wrong; this is a distortion of our position and our interests. We are interested in a strong, functioning and economically growing European Union," the Russian minister said.