MOSCOW, Jul 14 Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov with the American side in Indonesia was not and was not planned, said on Friday on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
«Negotiations were not planned and there were no contacts,» Zakharova said.
Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, along with other participants in the East Asia Summit (EAS), are participating in a meeting of foreign ministers on Friday. Blinken arrived in Jakarta the day before, having previously accompanied US President Joe Biden on a tour of Europe. Lavrov arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the annual meeting of the association's foreign ministers and a series of post-ministerial meetings and events of ASEAN and the bloc's dialogue partners started in the Indonesian capital.
The East Asia Summit is a forum for the dialogue of the leaders of the Asia-Pacific countries on a wide range of strategic political and economic issues, including the tasks of strengthening the regional security architecture. The next EAC summit will be held in September in Jakarta. Meetings in this format are held annually in conjunction with high-level ASEAN events. Since 2011, the leaders of the Russian Federation and the United States have also been invited to the forum of leaders of East and Southeast Asia.