“We always welcome such a dialogue, especially at a time of high tension in the region, and we hope that the result of the meeting will be a reduction in tension,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the US State Department said that Blinken and Lavrov will hold talks on January 21 in Geneva.
In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the meeting was under active development.