U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met briefly on Thursday -- the highest-level in-person talks between the two countries since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks past Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi on March 2, 2023. U.S.
Blinken did not immediately address the encounter but had told the G-20 meeting earlier that Russia’s war with Ukraine could not go unchallenged, according to remarks released by the State Department. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said there were "divergences" on the issue of the war in Ukraine "which we could not reconcile as various parties held differing views." "If we had a perfect meeting of minds on all issues, it would have been a collective statement," Jaishankar said.
The paragraphs stated that the war in Ukraine was causing immense human suffering while exacerbating fragilities in the global economy, the need to uphold international law, and that "the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible." Lavrov also mocked U.S. threats against China, which has presented a peace plan for Ukraine that has been applauded by Moscow but dismissed by Washington and its Western allies.
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