“The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, could fall out of favor with the Kremlin after an unsuccessful conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which disrupted the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: RosZMI Moscow Times and Merchant
Details: Lavrov, who has been the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry for more than 20 years, did not appear at an important meeting of the Russian Security Council, which Putin held on November 5.
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The Russian “Kommersant”, citing sources, wrote that Lavrov was “consensually absent” from the meeting of the Security Council, at which Putin instructed to work out proposals for resumption of nuclear tests. At the same time, the Foreign Minister was the only permanent member of the Security Council who missed this meeting.
In addition, Lavrov lost the status of the head of the Russian delegation at the G20 summit, which will be held in November. This year, it will be headed by the deputy head of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation Maksym Oreshkin. As Kremlin press secretary Dmytro Peskov said, the decision to appoint Oreshkin was made by Putin.
Prehistory:
- On October 20, Lavrov and Rubio had a phone conversation. The State Department stated that Rubio, in a conversation with Lavrov, stated the importance of future meetings between the Russian Federation and the United States in the context of the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
- October 21 Lavrov rejected immediate termination hostilities in Ukraine.
- After that, it became known that the USA postponed Lavrov’s personal meeting with Rubio and paused preparation of the meeting between Trump and Putin in Budapest.
- On October 23, Trump said that changed my mind to meet with Putin in Budapest in the near future. Putin himself, commenting on Trump’s statement about canceling the bilateral meeting in Budapest, said of her alleged “transfer”.
- On October 25, Trump announced that he did not plan to meet with Putin, until it countsthat an agreement will be reached on ending the war in Ukraine.
- On October 26, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that his conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on October 20 went “really well”, if the US as a result of this conversation, their personal meeting was cancelled.