Security guarantees in South Caucasus will not be affected after the Czech Republic assumes the EU presidency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"As for the EU guarantees of non-use of force in the Caucasus, they will remain in force," Lavrov told Vesti-24 TV channel on Monday. The talks over a new basic EU-Russia agreement have resumed, he said.
Russia will not insist on the short-term development of the agreement because "the document should include a new quality of partnership with the EU," he said, reported Interfax.