Moscow: Russia will not take part in the meeting of the Virtual Minister organized by the United States to fight the Covid-19 pandemic due to organizational difficulties and tight schedule of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and hope the participants are successful, spokesman for Russian Foreign Ministry Maria said Zakharova .
He remembered that the United States held a virtual meeting of foreign ministers on November 10 about the topic of fighting the Coronavirus pandemic.
According to Zakharova, Moscow did not have detailed information about the program and the participants.
“We received information about the upcoming event only at the end of October.
At that time, the work schedule of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had been formed and did not allow him to take part in the meeting.
Since the US side announced that it was not ready to include people besides the Minister of Foreign Affairs In the list of participants, it is impossible to send another representative from Russia, “Zakharova said in a comment.
Zakharova noted that Moscow hoped the participants of the success of the event.
“For our part, we are actively preparing a special session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva scheduled for November 29 – December 1,” added Zakharova.