MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia speaks for broader cooperation with the United States in space exploration, particularly for military purposes, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.

"We have a set of coordinated cooperation agreements, which we would like to implement as soon as possible. The agreements concern defense technologies and space [exploration]," Sergei Lavrov said upon his return to Moscow from Washington.

In Washington, Lavrov attended the meeting of the Quartet of Middle East mediators comprising the United Nations, Russia, the European Union and the United States.

Lavrov said Russia wants to extend its dialog with the U.S. on space by including aspects that "could be linked with plans on military use of space."

The United States has its own doctrine that concerns these issues, he said, while Russia is advancing its initiative on the transparency and confidence building in space at the UN.