MOSCOW

The Russian foreign minister on Monday called for “additional contacts between countries” to resolve global problems.

Speaking at a briefing for heads of diplomatic missions accredited in Moscow ahead of the 77th UN General Assembly session, Sergey Lavrov stressed that the UN was established to seek collective solutions to global problems.

"We are witnessing the accumulation of crisis processes, both associated with economic policy, with the policy in the field of energy supply to mankind, and processes that are directly caused by the undermining of the foundations on which the entire system of globalization was based," he said.

"High-level events are starting this week (in New York), during which tough assessments of various actions of various states will be made -- there is no getting away from this,” Lavrov added.

The general debate of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly will begin in New York on Tuesday.