Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used an interview with Egypt’s TeN TV to reiterate President Vladimir Putin’s call for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council P5 nations to address the strategic crisis. “The leaders of the five nations can elaborate recommendations for the rest of the world community and I think such recommendations will be welcome.” He also emphasized the importance of dialogue, such as the Putin-Biden talk: “It is necessary to switch the situation of negative confrontation into a dialogue. And it is developing. On Dec. 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden for more than two hours in the videoconference format. Despite all the serious contradictions and gaps in the approaches, the United States is at least willing to develop such dialogue,” he said.