Rex Tillerson
U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson plans to skip scheduled for April 5-6 meeting of foreign Ministers of NATO countries to participate in the meeting of Chinese President XI Jinping, and later he will travel to Russia. About it to Agency Reuters said several officials.
According to their information, Tillerson is going to miss the first period of his powers meeting in Brussels with 28 colleagues from NATO countries to participate in the negotiations of the President of Donald trump with XI Jinping at the resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida on April 6-7.
Also, as reported by two officials, Tillerson plans to visit Moscow April 12.
Press Secretary of the state Department mark Toner has failed to promptly comment on this information.
In mid-February on the sidelines of the meeting of the foreign Ministers of the G20 countries for the first time Tillerson spoke with his Russian counterpart Lavrov. On the eve of the talks, Lavrov expressed the hope to strengthen ties with the new U.S. administration.
Trump has nominated the former head of Exxon Mobil Tillerson to the post of Secretary of state on December 13. He was later approved by the Senate of the Congress.