MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Moscow’s work on a memorandum on the Ukraine crisis has reached an advanced stage and there will certainly be a second round of talks with Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"Yes, we are all for talks. Yes, there will be a second round. They [the Ukrainian authorities] have confirmed it. This is a positive development in itself," the top diplomat noted at a high-level conference on historical southern Russian lands.

"Work [on a memorandum] is underway," Lavrov said in response to a question. "I don’t know about Ukraine but our work has reached an advanced stage, and we will hand the memorandum over to the Ukrainians in any case," he added.