Ukraine war: Meeting between Baerbock and Lavrov in New York burst | politics

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Meeting between Baerbock and Lavrov burst

A planned meeting between Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (41) and the Russian chief diplomat Sergey Lavrov (72) in New York has burst.

“After they asked their questions about negotiations with Sergei Lavrov on the fringes of the UN General Assembly and received a date proposal from the Russian side, the EU delegations disappeared from the radar,” criticized the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (46) on her on Friday Telegram channel.

The spokeswoman apparently also referred to an initiated conversation between Baerbock and Lavrov.

︎ In the run-up to the general debate in New York, there were contacts between the local delegations. The German Press Agency learned from diplomatic circles that it was about the possibility of a conversation between Baerbock and her Russian counterpart on the security of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The meeting did not take place.

The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been heavily contested in recent weeks. The plant was hit several times, which increased international concern about a nuclear accident.

An observer mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was able to visit the nuclear power plant in early September. However, the majority of the experts left on the same day, only two IAEA employees remained on site. The shelling of the nuclear power plant then continued.

The nuclear authority called the risk of accidents “significant” in their investigation report and recently called for a protection zone to be built around the power plant.

(bw/dpa)

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