The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov plans to hold many bilateral meetings during the diplomatic forum in Antalya. So the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova answered the question of the correspondent of “Anadola” whether Lavrov’s contacts with colleagues from other countries on the fields of the diplomatic forum are planned to resolve the Ukrainian issue.
“Now the schedule of bilateral meetings of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov is formed in the sidelines of the Antalian diplomatic forum. I can definitely tell you (meetings),” said the diplomat.
“The third point – here it is very important to distinguish – of course the situation around Ukraine will be discussed, I am sure, literally at every meeting. Is it a special meeting is planned exclusively and only on this topic, specialized – I do not have such information,” Zakharova noted.
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Speaking about the prospect of Lavrov’s conversation with the head of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, the Russian diplomat said that there were no such appeals with the Ukrainian side.
“I can say that at the stage of coordination there is a meeting with the host, that is, with the Foreign Minister of Turkey and with a number of heads of foreign policy departments of various states that will be at this conference. Still under approval, the program only turns up, we will inform you a little later,” Zakharova said.
Antalya on April 11-13 will be held the fourth diplomatic forum (Adf2025), which will unite world leaders and government officials under the motto: “Return of diplomacy to the fragmented world.”
According to diplomatic sources, the event will be held at the NEST Congress Center in the Belek tourist area under the patronage of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and with the support of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The head of the Turkish state will perform at the opening of the forum.
Any foreign contingents in Ukraine will be the threat of the Russian Federation
“We would like to remind you that any foreign presence in Ukraine, regardless of the flag, signs, declared mandates, will be considered the Russian Federation as a threat of security of our country and bears the risk of direct clashes of the participants of such so -called mission from individual NATO members, which means the whole alliance with our country,” Zakharova said.
According to the diplomat, Kyiv “expects from its European allies specific steps to send their troops, which in practice will mean the entry of the relevant countries into the conflict on the side of the Kyiv regime”.
At the same time, she indicated that so far there were no decisions from the Western countries, “and” such a slip “, according to the diplomat,” annoyed “the leadership of Kyiv.