The United States hopes that U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry will meet with the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in Munich on the first day of the weekend, 7 February, said a senior Commissioner of the state Department.
"He (Kerry) will hold a meeting with the Minister of foreign Affairs (Russian Federation) Laurel on the first day of the weekend," he said.
before the official authorized the U.S. Department of state Jen Psaki said at an international security conference in Munich Kerry hopes to meet with Lavrov, with the date of such possible meeting was not specified. Himself Lavrov before also did not rule out that it would hold a meeting with Kerry at the Symposium in Munich.
The sixth of February in Germany starts 51st Munich conference on security, which will last 3 days. Its main theme - the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's role in it, the possibility of war in the European Union, the fight against international crime.
The Munich conference was founded in 1963 as "the meeting authorized the military departments" of countries-members of NATO. Now it is an international discussion forum, a gathering of politicians, diplomats, military, business, academic and community leaders from more than 40 countries in the world (members of NATO and the EU, and countries that play an important role on the world stage - Russia, China, Japan, India and others). The 2015 event will be held from 6 to 8 February.
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