DENPASAR, Bali, Indonesia, Nov 14 about the hospitalization of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Western media began to appear an hour before the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, which received special attention at the G20 summit, the correspondent reports.
Negotiations on Monday became the first face-to-face meeting between Xi Jinping and Biden after Biden took over as President of the United States. The last time they met in person was in 2015 during Xi Jinping's visit to the United States.
Earlier, Western media reported that Lavrov had allegedly been hospitalized at a local hospital. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry promptly denied this information, calling it a fake aerobatics. A few minutes later, she posted a video with Lavrov, who is preparing for tomorrow's G20 summit in a hotel room, where he has several speeches scheduled. Later, Lavrov himself personally denied the rumors of hospitalization and advised Western journalists to be more honest and write the truth.
The first reports of Lavrov's hospitalization with reference to unnamed Indonesian doctors began to appear on the tapes of the American news agencies Associated Press, Bloomberg and others at 17 hours according to Bali time (about 12.00 Moscow time), the information quickly spread through the Western media, including in European languages.