US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the meeting of the heads of Foreign Affairs at the Southeast Asian Association (Asia) in Malaysia, Reuters said.
“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Russian Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Asia Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Kuala Labor on Thursday, and a great representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said,” He said, “ – The post says.
Lavrov will participate in the annual meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the ASEAN and a series of centers after the events in the ASEAN and the dialogue partners in the bloc. On the eve of Lavrov’s visit, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the minister, in particular, will hold a meeting in the form of Russia -Oqiqa, who will participate in East Asian Summit meetings and the Asian Regional Forum on Security. Lavrov is expected to hold a number of meetings with Asian colleagues “in the fields” from the events of Asian.
Earlier, the US State Department confirmed that Rubio will participate in Asia in Malaysia. The United States, like Russia, is one of the partners of dialogue in the association. Lavrov and Rubio spoke several times on the phone and met personally in the Russian -American negotiations in Riyadh in February. At that meeting, the two parties agreed to start working to normalize bilateral relations.
