“American colleagues are not on the schedule,” TASS quotes Zakharova.

She also said that on October 31, Lavrov is scheduled to meet with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, as well as participate in the G20 events.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman also noted that the gas theme at bilateral meetings with Lavrov, which took place on Saturday, "was not substantively discussed."

Earlier it was reported that Lavrov, at a meeting with the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted the importance of including the vaccines developed in Russia for COVID-19 in the list of drugs recommended by WHO for use in an emergency.