No meeting between Lavrov and Blinken planned in Indonesia

New Delhi: No meeting is planned between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of a G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Indonesia, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergey Ryabkov, said on Thursday.

“Nothing is being planned,” the senior Russian diplomat said, when asked a question about the possibility of a meeting.

“Given the circumstances, existing contacts via embassies and sporadic telephone calls are quite enough for us to work in detail on current issues” with the United States, Ryabkov said.

However, the experts have predicted that meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov may solve the problem running between Ukraine and Russia. After Russia’s attack on Ukraine, relations of the Moscow government with other countries have disturbed. Western countries have imposed sanctions on Russia as Russ army attacked Ukraine.

(Vinayak)