State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken raised issues of interest to Washington during his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and therefore the United States would not apologize to him. It has been reported DEA News.
“I know that our Russian colleagues are trying to make a fuss about this. But from our point of view, it is important to note that this is a brief contact and not a full-fledged bilateral meeting. But in a broader sense, we will not apologize for actions that are in our best interests,” Price said.
Thus, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered the question of whose initiative the contact took place.
The previous day, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, stated that there were no negotiations between Lavrov and Blinken. does not haveTheir communications at the margins of the G20 were brief. He also noted that the Foreign Minister himself wanted to contact the Russian minister.
Earlier, Zakharova said that Blinken’s story about a short meeting with Lavrov testifies About the desire of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to introduce himself. He explained that US representatives are “interested in image, public relations and self-promotion”, while American citizens are concerned with the actions of country officials in connection with “self-created” problems.