After serving as a Russian diplomat for 21 years it seems that veteran foreign minister Sergei Lavrov may have fallen out of favour with his master following a phone call between Lavrov and US secretary of state Marco Rubio which may have caused President Trump to cancel last months proposed summit between the two leaders.
The Kremlin deny their is a rift or that Lavrov has been side-lined but eyebrows were raised after a junior official was chosen to lead Russia's delegation at the upcoming G20 summit rather than Lavrov.
I'd stay away from multi-story buildings with windows Sergei , they can be bad for your health ... just sayin.
The Kremlin deny their is a rift or that Lavrov has been side-lined but eyebrows were raised after a junior official was chosen to lead Russia's delegation at the upcoming G20 summit rather than Lavrov.
Quote:Rumours of a rift have been mounting since Donald Trump called off a planned summit with Putin in Budapest last month, following a phone call between Lavrov and US secretary of state Marco Rubio.
According to the Financial Times, it was Lavrov's uncompromising stance that prompted the White House to put the summit on ice.
Conversations I had with diplomatic sources here at the time revealed a belief that Lavrov had either dropped the ball or gone off-script. Whether it was by accident or by design, his diplomacy (or lack of it) torpedoed the summit and seemingly set back a US-Russia rapprochement.
https://news.sky.com/story/where-is-serg...r-13465965
I'd stay away from multi-story buildings with windows Sergei , they can be bad for your health ... just sayin.