Lavrov held talks with the OSCE Secretary General

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu. The meeting took place at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Negotiations were held in closed mode. The press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that at the meeting, diplomats “emphasized the need to improve the atmosphere and restore mutually respectful dialogue” at the General Assembly. The Russian minister expressed hope that the current session “will be built in a professional and depoliticized manner” in order to jointly find answers to global challenges and threats.

The Russian Foreign Minister has already met at the General Assembly session with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The talks, which lasted more than an hour, discussed the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, the Russian minister met with the foreign ministers of Syria, Egypt and Cuba.

More about the meeting of Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio in the material “Kommersant” “Fog of the General Assembly”.