Lavrov said the lack of new proposals at a meeting with the German foreign Minister

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with his German counterpart Johann Wadeful discussed bilateral relations and the conflict in Ukraine. According to him, Mr. Vadeful did not present anything new.

The head of the Russian foreign Ministry said that at the meeting Johann Wadeful fully repeated the official agenda of Berlin. “I didn’t get anything new from there...” I told him so honestly: I thought you had something interesting, something unusual, but so you could just call and say: read my speech, Lavrov said at a press conference.

Sergey Lavrov described the meeting as an attempt by Germany to offer Russia concessions, for example, in agreements on shipping in the Black Sea. “It was such a subtext that here I came, I condescended to contact with you, but you now, for the sake of what I made such a gesture of goodwill,” the diplomat added.

The meeting at the UN General Assembly was the first face-to-face contact between the foreign ministers of Russia and Germany since 2022. It lasted about 20 minutes. According to the official representative of the Russian Ministry Maria Zakharova, the negotiations were requested by the German side.