"Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov will begin a marathon of bilateral meetings. These are G20 colleagues ... A number of bilateral meetings are scheduled with counterparts from Mexico and South Africa, and a meeting with a colleague from Turkey is being prepared. There are a lot of meetings. There will be a meeting with the foreign minister of Brazil, of course. There will also be a meeting with the foreign ministers of Egypt and Bolivia," Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.
Lavrov will also take part in the key events of the G20 on February 22, she added.
After the visit to Venezuela, Lavrov has already arrived in Rio de Janeiro, where he will take part in the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting from February 21-22. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the first meeting within the framework of the Brazilian presidency in the G20 will be devoted to the problems of the modern international agenda, focusing on the settlement of geopolitical contradictions and the reform of global economic institutions.