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Moscow.- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart, Marco Rubio, will meet this Wednesday in New York on the sidelines of the debates at the General Assembly of the UN, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The meeting, scheduled for noon (16.00 GMT), will take place after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, encouraged Ukraine to regain the territories occupied by the Russian army. According to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, the meeting's agenda will be "broad."Trump's Criticism of Russia
Lavrov and Rubio last met on July 10 in Kuala Lumpur on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Malaysia.
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Previously, both diplomats had met in Riyadh on February 18 to address the normalization of bilateral relations. This new meeting will take place after harsh statements from the American president in which Trump called Russia a "paper tiger" and said that he has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years in a war that a true military power should have won in less than a week. The Kremlin responded that Russia is a bear and not a tiger and "there are no paper bears." Trump himself made these statements a month and a half after meeting with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.
