'This, of course, is the height of fakery,' Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has dismissed reports that he was hospitalized after arriving in Indonesia's resort island of Bali for this week's G-20 Summit as a"political game."
Indonesian officials were cited by news agency The Associated Press on Monday as saying that the official had been taken to hospital after suffering a health problem, and that he was being treated on the island. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives to attend the G20 Summit at Ngurah Rai International airport at Tuban, Badung regency on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, on November 13, 2022.According to the AP, two people said Lavrov was being treated for a heart condition.
However, Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, issued a statement denying that Lavrov had been hospitalized. "This, of course, is the height of fakery," she wrote on her Telegram channel."Sergey Viktrovich [Lavrov] and I are reading the news wires and cannot believe our eyes."Lavrov arrived in Bali on Sunday to lead the Russian delegation at the gathering of the world's 20 largest economies.This is a developing story and it will be updated.
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