Became known date of the visit of British foreign Secretary to Moscow
After several postponements of the visit of the British Minister Boris Johnson will come to Moscow on December 22. This is the first official visit of the head of the foreign office in Russia in may 2012.
The Minister of foreign Affairs of great Britain, Boris Johnson will come to Moscow with an official visit on Friday, December 22. It is reported TASS with reference to the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry.
On Wednesday, the press Secretary of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov, answering journalists ‘ questions, noted that the meeting with Johnson in the schedule of President Vladimir Putin doesn’t appear.
Initially about the visit of Johnson to Moscow on 22 December, reported Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The arrival of Johnson in Moscow expected in spring 2017, but has been shifted from late March to 10 April due to trip Johnson to the Congress of the Ministers of foreign Affairs of the countries-members of NATO in Brussels. A week later, after a chemical attack in the Syrian Khan Sheyhun, the trip Johnson was abolished at all.
Autumn Johnson and Lavrov met in new York during the session of the UN General Assembly. The Ministers discussed the normalization of bilateral relations and once again raised the question of a possible visit of Johnson to Moscow.