Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. File photoMOSCOW, July 8The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the mainstream had an order to work out a «boycott» of Russia on the G20 Foreign Ministers at any cost, even if it caused laughter from others. «The entire Western press covering the G20 ministerial meeting is busy with one thing: an attempt to find out who boycotted whom as a result. They run, fuss, count the time the ministers are in the hall, follow their movements,» Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel. «Did Lavrov leave the hall? Did he listen to the end of who? Does he stay for lunch? Did he have dinner at dinner yesterday? And when does he fly away?», she gave examples of journalists' questions. /uploads/2022/07/f1c72aaeee9a085ccbd918858b294589.jpg» />Lavrov sat next to colleagues from Mexico and Saudi Arabia at the G20. Neither food, nor migration, nor energy is relevant to the West today, she added. «The mainstream has an order: work out the boycott at any cost, even if it already causes laughter from everyone present. If the Western media had an idea of u200bu200barithmetic, they could solve a simple problem: 20-7 u003d 13. What does the failure of the boycott mean before it began» , — Zakharova noted. Earlier, a welcome dinner was held in Bali for the participants of the meeting of the Ministerial G20. According to the Kyodo news agency, the heads of the diplomatic departments of the G7 countries decided not to attend the dinner in protest against Lavrov's presence. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the situation to RIA Novosti, said that Lavrov «had a number of contacts and did not notice the absence, as it turns out, of ministers boycotting the event.» On Thursday, the Russian minister held meetings on the sidelines of the G20 with Chinese and Turkish Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Mevlut Cavusoglu. Negotiations will be held on Friday with the Foreign Ministers of India, Indonesia, Argentina and Brazil. Also, according to the Kyodo news agency, the ceremony of photographing the participants of the G20 meeting was not held on Friday, largely due to the position of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who did not want to participate in the event with Lavrov .
Lavrov sharply answered the question about his possible meeting with Blinken
