Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in GenevaGENEVA, 21 Jan. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that during his talks with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the deployment of weapons in Latin America, in particular, in Venezuela and Cuba, was not touched upon. Lavrov and Blinken met in Geneva on Friday. This was the third meeting of the heads of foreign affairs agencies. The first took place in Reykjavik in May on the sidelines of the Arctic Council ministerial meeting. The second in Stockholm in December «on the sidelines» of the OSCE ministerial meeting. «We did not touch on this topic today,» Lavrov said at a press conference after talks with Blinken. Previously, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking about the possibility of deploying Russia's military infrastructure in Cuba and in Venezuela, said he did not want to confirm or exclude anything. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, in turn, noted that the United States will give a decisive response if Russia deploys its troops in Latin America. » />Caribbean crisis 2.0: what are the US military afraid of?
