Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will try on Thursday to persuade members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to support Russia's proposal to draw up a new European security treaty.
Lavrov will talk about European security among other issues at a PACE plenary session in Strasbourg.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed drawing up a new pan-European security pact in June 2008, and Russia published a draft of the treaty on November 29, 2009, sending copies to heads of state and international organizations, including NATO.
However, world nations have been reluctant to support Russia's initiative.
In late February, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rejected Russia's proposal, saying Europe's security would be strengthened by closer cooperation between Russia and NATO.
The Russian foreign minister is also expected to talk about the danger of the attempts to falsify history.
PACE adopted a resolution on Wednesday saying that the regime of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was responsible for the Great Famine (Holodomor) in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
The Assembly has rejected several radical amendments to the resolution, which proposed the Holodomor be recognized as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Lavrov is also planning to discuss cooperation between Russia and PACE with Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland and PACE president Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday.
MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti)
