The FINANCIAL — According to RIA Novosti, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to hold some 50 bilateral meetings during the annual UN General Assembly session, currently underway in New York, a deputy foreign minister said on September 22.
Alexander Yakovenko said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily that "besides regular sessions, the UN General Assembly is important from the point of view of bilateral meetings. For instance, Sergei Lavrov has planned around 50 bilateral meetings."
The high-ranking diplomat said Russia intends to draw attention to three of its draft resolutions it considers to be important with regard to security and the establishment of stable intergovernmental relations.
The first draft resolution, he said, concerns measures of transparency and trust in activities in outer space. The second relates to the spheres of information and telecommunications in the context of international security, and the third to measures against the escalation of racism, ethnic discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
Yakovenko also said that the recent developments in the Georgia crisis were not on the session's agenda, but may be discussed by Russia within bilateral and other meetings on the sidelines of the session.
The diplomat added that Lavrov would arrive in New York on September 22 and is expected to address the UN General Assembly session on September 27.
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