A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled for Wednesday in New York. Kirill Logvinov, Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), stated this in an interview with TASS, ahead of the Lavrov-Russian delegation’s participation in the high-level week of the UN General Assembly.

 “As far as I know, the meeting between Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio is scheduled for September 23,” the Russian diplomat noted.

Responding to a question about the prospects for Lavrov’s bilateral meetings with other representatives of Western countries within the framework of the UN General Assembly, Logvinov said that “in case of receiving relevant requests,” including from representatives of Western countries, the Russian side “will consider them, taking into account the schedule of the minister’s visit to New York.”

“We [i.e. Russia] have never refused meetings,” the Russian diplomat concluded.