US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Will Not Meet With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov At Tomorrow's G20 Meeting Of Foreign Ministers In Bali

 

The Hill: Blinken won’t meet with Lavrov at G-20 summit in Indonesia 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will not meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when the two are in Bali, Indonesia, this week for a meeting of the foreign ministers of Group of 20 nations. 

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday that the “time is not right” for a bilateral engagement between the two top diplomats because of Russia’s “unprovoked, brutal war” against Ukraine. 

The G-20 foreign minister’s meeting, set to take place between July 7 and 8, presents a potentially awkward, public confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, which are both members of the global grouping, more than five months into Russia’s war against Ukraine.  

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Update: U.S. Does Not Expect Any Blinken-Lavrov Meeting at G20 This Week (Reuters)  

WNU Editor: Not surprised that there will be no meeting. The US has made it very clear that no meetings will take place as the war continues in Ukraine. And from the Kremlin's perspective they see the US waging a war against Russia, albeit through proxies in Ukraine.