ARCHIVAL PHOTO: Delegations led by Russian abroad Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a gathering in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.© Getty Images / Ministry of abroad Affairs of Russia
The U.S. State Department reported that Russia's abroad Minister Sergei Lavrow and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet on Thursday at the margins of the ASEAN Forum in Malaysia.
Lavrov and Rubio have been on the telephone respective times since president Donald Trump returned to the White home in January, but they met only erstwhile in Saudi Arabia in February as part of contacts aimed at normalising relations between both countries.The public agenda on the State Department's website lists Rubio and Lavrov's gathering planned in Kuala Lumpur, where they both participate in the yearly Regional Forum of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).The talks of both diplomats are scheduled to take place at 18:00 local time (10:00 GMT), as reported by the State Department.‘I can confirm that the gathering is underway’ said Russian MFA spokesperson Maria Zacharowa on Thursday.At the beginning of the week Trump attacked Russian president Vladimir Putin, accusing him of his reluctance to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.“Putin throws quite a few nonsense at us” said the American leader.Putin ‘frommore is very nice, but it turns out that his actions do not make sense” in the context of ending fights," Trump said.
Moscow maintains that it is ready for a diplomatic solution with Kiev, but stresses that it should be legally binding and mention to the first causes of the crisis.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Pieskov said Wednesday that Russian authorities treat Trump's comments "Relax", explaining that U.S. president kind "is mostly rather harsh in terms of its wording"."We are determined to proceed dialog with Washington and our policy to repair severely damaged bilateral relations" – noted Dozkov.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/621273-lavrov-rubio-malaysia-asean/
