The Russian Ambassador's residence in the capital of the United States expressed readiness to forward to the U.S. state Department to Twitter a copy of the request for a meeting by the foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with Secretary of state Rex Tillerson, afterward as the official representative of the Ministry Heather Nauert said that the request was not.

The hype surrounding a possible meeting Tillerson and Lavrov in Ethiopia, where they were both on Thursday, arose because of statements state Department about the fact that the request for such meeting from the Russian side has not received. However, the residence of the Russian Ambassador to the US informed that the request was sent on March 2.

on Thursday, Nauert again said that the request was not. Tillerson himself said that his chart does not appear the meeting with Lavrov, but did not rule out the possibility of negotiations with the Russian colleague.

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