Ukraine War: Rubio to Meet Lavrov Wednesday in New York
The meeting between the heads of American and Russian diplomacy coincides with Volodymyr Zelensky's address to the UN General Assembly.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday in New York as part of diplomatic exchanges surrounding the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, according to Le Monde.
The meeting will take place on the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the UN podium. Zelensky also indicated that he had what he described as a positive and productive meeting on Tuesday with U.S. President Donald Trump, though no further details about the substance of the exchange were provided in the available account.
This week's diplomatic calendar at the UN brings together numerous heads of state and government as well as foreign ministers, providing a framework for bilateral discussions on the sidelines of the General Assembly's official sessions, as the war in Ukraine remains at the center of international concerns.
The precise content of the discussions planned between Rubio and Lavrov, as well as the specific objectives of this meeting, have not been detailed in the information available at this stage.
No joint statement or formal outcome from the meeting had been reported at the time of publication of this article.
Sources
- EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le chef de la diplomatie américaine, Marco Rubio, va rencontrer son homologue russe, Sergueï Lavrov, mercredi à New York — Le Monde — Une
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