It's too early to talk about the timing of a meeting between the heads of the Russian and US foreign policy departments, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

Moscow, October 21 /Xinhua/ — Russia and the United States are working on issues raised during a telephone conversation between their foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio.

It's too early to announce a meeting time between Sergei Lavrov and Miguel Rubio; it's still just an idea, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday. He called Western media reports that the meeting had been postponed "a hoax," noting that something that hasn't been agreed upon cannot be postponed.

"The fact is that the presidential conversations, in fact, the telephone conversations between [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [US President Donald] Trump last week, included, among other things, the topic of next steps. One aspect of these steps is, of course, the contact between Foreign Minister Lavrov and Secretary of State Rubio. The corresponding contact took place yesterday, and we are now working on what the minister and the secretary discussed," the deputy foreign minister told reporters.

"Neither before the phone call nor during yesterday's phone call [between S. Lavrov and M. Rubio] was the issue of a meeting specifically raised," said S. Ryabkov. "As an idea, it exists. But it's premature to talk about a schedule," he added. –0–

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