Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop during a meeting in Moscow. May 20, 2022MOSCOW, May 20. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a press conference with his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop, said that he would definitely take advantage of the invitation to visit the capital of Mali.»Once again, I would like to thank our colleagues for very useful talks and for the invitation to visit Bomako, I will definitely use it,» Lavrov said. At the same time, the Russian minister did not specify exactly when this would happen. The visit of the Malian Foreign Minister to Russia takes place against the backdrop of an attempted military coup in an African country. Earlier, the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization of Mali said that the military, supported by the «Western state», attempted a coup d'état in Mali on the night of May 11-12, but the country's defense and security forces managed to stop it. The previous visit of the Malian Foreign Minister to Russia took place in November 2021. Then the minister held talks with his Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov and told him about the need to strengthen cooperation between Bamako and Moscow.
