"To approve the following composition of the delegation of the Russian Federation to participate in the work of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly: S.V. Lavrov ... (head of the delegation)," the document says.

It also included, in particular, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, chairmen of specialized committees of the Federation Council and the State Duma Grigory Karasin and Leonid Slutsky, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya.

Earlier it became known that the chairman of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly will be the representative of the Maldives, Abdullah Shahid.