The United States called the topics that will be discussed at the meeting of the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov in Reykaliik. This was told about the representative of the State Department Ned Price, Interfax reports.
According to him, the heads of departments will discuss negotiations between US President Joe Biden and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as well as strategic security issues. The price stressed that Lavrov and Blinken will also talk about a wide range of relationships to see if the potential for cooperation in those areas where the interests of the two countries coincide. As examples of such issues, the representative of the State Department called the Iranian nuclear problem, the situation with North Korea and a climatic question.
Earlier in the State Department disclosed the purpose of the meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State, which will take place next week. According to the representative of the department, negotiations between Lavrov and Blinken, which will be held on the fields of the ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council, will attempt to return the relations of the two countries to a more predictable and stable way.
On May 12, Russian Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State agreed on a bilateral meeting. They spent a telephone conversation and decided to organize a meeting in Reykjavik.