MOSCOW, 01 February 2022, (TON): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will have a telephone conversation on February 1.

This was reported  Russian media by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting on the statements of the US Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and other American representatives about the upcoming contact between the foreign ministers of the two countries.

The diplomat said “a face-to-face meeting is not planned. Lavrov and Blinken will have a telephone conversation on Tuesday.”

Nuland had previously said that Lavrov and Blinken would likely negotiate in the coming week. In turn, the Russian minister, in an interview with radio stations, said that a new Russian-American meeting would take place in the next few weeks.

Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that a meeting between the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry and his Hungarian counterpart could take place on Tuesday.