The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson
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MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday in Moscow will hold talks with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday. The range of topics under discussion promises to be the most wide: the relations between Moscow and Washington, the conflict in Syria, the situation in Ukraine, the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Russia is still a lot of questions about foreign policy under a new administration. The upcoming meeting will help to clarify Washington’s position and possibly set the tone for relations between the two countries for a long time.
A detailed discussion
Lavrov and Tillerson met earlier, on the sidelines of the meeting of the foreign Ministers of the “twenty” on February 16th in Bonn, and twice, according to the Russian foreign Ministry, said by phone on (February 21, Tillerson called to Express condolences in connection with death, permanent representative of Russia to the UN Security Council Vitaly Churkin, and the conversation of April 9 was devoted to rocket US strike on Syrian airbase in HOMS province. – Approx. TASS).