Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington next week, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
"Sergei Lavrov will visit the United States on July 11-13. He is scheduled to meet with Barack Obama and hold talks with Hillary Clinton," the ministry said in a Twitter feed, adding that the sides will discuss the schedule of bilateral top-level contacts for 2011.
On July 11, Lavrov will take part in a meeting of the Middle East Quartet in Washington.
The minister met with a delegation of the Palestinian political movement Fatah and expressed hope that the quartet's meeting in Washington will create conditions for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks, halted in September 2010.
