Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov said that the United States did not request a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers (CMFA) in North Macedonia. , reports RIA News.
“No, I didn’t ask. And he won’t ask,” Ryabkov answered the relevant question.
He added that such a meeting would not happen.
27 November European Union (EU) diplomatic service representative Peter Stano statedHe said that the regional community has nothing against Sergei Lavrov coming to North Macedonia for the OSCE meeting. According to him, the flight of the Russian minister’s plane over Bulgaria will not violate Western sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Government of Bulgaria opened The country’s airspace so that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation can attend the meeting of the heads of foreign affairs departments of the member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in North Macedonia.
Previously Lavrov stated It’s about a conspiracy surrounding the issue of possible negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
Source: Gazeta
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