Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that countries in the European Union and NATO requested to meet him on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, and then he disappeared from the radar screen, and that one of the countries prevented him, according to Russia Today.
He said: “Two countries in the European Union and a member of NATO asked for private talks with me. I accepted that, and I said: as you wish. We do not refuse contacts, and we will always be ready to accept the form that comforts our partners, but after this interaction between us, they disappeared from the radar screens and did not We hear about them after that.”
Noting that the European Union did not allow the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, to hold a meeting with the Russian delegation, he added: “Every year we hold many bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
This year, as in previous years, a meeting with the President of Cyprus, Mr. Anastasiades, was scheduled at his request and we included him in our schedule and in a timely manner for him and this schedule was published but an hour before the appointment, his staff informed us that the European Union did not allow him By going to meet with me, literally.”