Mideast Quartet to meet in Moscow in mid-March

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Wednesday that the so-called Mideast Quartet would meet in Moscow in March to try to push the peace process forward, DPA reported.

Lavrov announced March 19 as the date when high-ranking delegations from Russia, the United States, European Union and United Nations would meet.

They would hold "detailed discussions on the complicated situation in the Middle East," Lavrov said, according to Interfax.

The quartet would review concrete steps to try to get the peace process in motion again, he said.

Representatives of the quartet at the level of special envoys had met in January at the EU in Brussels.

The quartet was founded in 2002 and meets regularly at various levels to try to help Israel and the Palestinians reach a peace agreement. The quartet's special envoy is former British prime minister Tony Blair.