“As you heard, Secretary of State (USA Anthony. -
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) Blinken invited Foreign Minister (Russian Sergey) Lavrov to Geneva to sit down at the negotiating table.
And we hope that they (Russia) will accept this invitation and choose diplomacy instead of confrontation,” Thomas-Greenfield said in an interview published on the website of the US Permanent Mission to the UN.
Earlier it became known that Blinken invited Lavrov to meet in Europe next week.