Lavrov announced a meeting with US Secretary of State Blinken in Geneva on February 24

“With your consent (Russian President Vladimir Putin. -

) such a meeting is scheduled for this week - February 24 in Geneva.

We will be guided by the positions that you have approved and which you are defending in contacts with your colleagues and which, of course, we will actively promote at the Foreign Ministry level, ”he said during a speech at a meeting of the Russian Security Council.

Earlier, the head of the press service of the State Department, Ned Price, said that Blinken accepted the date of negotiations proposed by Lavrov at the end of next week.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia expects to continue negotiations on security guarantees.