A police officer prepares for G20 Foreign Ministers talks in Nusa Dua, BaliTOKYO, Jul 7< /strong> Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi did not attend the official dinner of the foreign ministers of the G20 countries because of the likelihood of his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov being there, the Kyodo news agency reported. Lavrov arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali the day before to attend the G20 ministerial meeting. As stated earlier in the Foreign Ministry, «on the sidelines» of the meeting, Lavrov will hold a number of meetings. On Thursday, he met with Turkish and Chinese Foreign Ministers Mevlut Cavusoglu and Wang Yi. — the agency said. The G20 ministerial meeting will be held in Bali on July 7-8.
