Lavrov Travels to US for G20 Meeting to Denounce Sanctions on Russia
Moscow says Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will use the G20 meeting in Atlanta to denounce sanctions. They were imposed to make Russia pay for its invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is heading to the United States to attend a G20 meeting in Atlanta. The G20 is a forum of the world's largest economies. Moscow says Lavrov will use the occasion to publicly denounce the sanctions aimed at Russia. Lavrov is himself under sanctions.
The sanctions are economic pressure designed to make Russia pay for invading Ukraine. Moscow objects to them, and Lavrov's trip to the US gives it an international platform to state that position.
The source provides only this information. It does not say what is on the meeting's agenda, when Lavrov will speak, or how other participants have reacted.
