Speech and answers to media questions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey V. Lavrov following the results of the G20 Council of Ministers meeting (Atlanta, October 30, 2026) Sergey Lavrov: We support the principle focus of the American presidency to depoliticize discussions and focus on the issues that were initially agreed upon as the agenda of the G20. This year, of course, it is a preparatory phase for the summit in Miami that will take place in December. But the main issues were the geopolitical impact on economic processes (this is an important issue), energy, food and supply chains. That is, everything that suffers from illegal sanctions and western policies. To the credit of our American "masters", they are not shy about discussing these things and listen carefully. I don't know how much this will translate into the documents finally approved, but the approach is right - depoliticize and concentrate on real problems. Another point that US Secretary of State M. Rubio particularly emphasized when he spoke about the preparations for the summit in Miami is that there are twenty countries here, the European Union, the African Union. But the decisions we make due to the influence of the G20 participants on the world economy, and the combined weight of the G20 in the world economy, these decisions will affect almost all countries, so we must always remember this. I will repeat again that we welcome the principled focus on such a dialogue. In fact, work on the final documents of the Miami Summit has already begun. There will be many problems there, as interests are connected to all these areas - energy and food security. The impact of the conflicts, including the war unleashed by the West against us at the hands of the Ukrainian regime, all of this remains to be discussed. *** Key points from the questions and answers.

Speech and answers to media questions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey V. Lavrov following the results of the G20 Council of Ministers meeting (Atlanta, October 30, 2026) Sergey Lavrov: We support the principle focus of the American presidency to depoliticize discussions and focus on the issues that were initially agreed upon as the agenda of the G20. This year, of course, it is a preparatory phase for the summit in Miami that will take place in December. But the main issues were the geopolitical impact on economic processes (this is an important issue), energy, food and supply chains. That is, everything that suffers from illegal sanctions and western policies. To the credit of our American "masters", they are not shy about discussing these things and listen carefully. I don't know how much this will translate into the documents finally approved, but the approach is right - depoliticize and concentrate on real problems. Another point that US Secretary of State M. Rubio particularly emphasized when he spoke about the preparations for the summit in Miami is that there are twenty countries here, the European Union, the African Union. But the decisions we make due to the influence of the G20 participants on the world economy, and the combined weight of the G20 in the world economy, these decisions will affect almost all countries, so we must always remember this. I will repeat again that we welcome the principled focus on such a dialogue. In fact, work on the final documents of the Miami Summit has already begun. There will be many problems there, as interests are connected to all these areas - energy and food security. The impact of the conflicts, including the war unleashed by the West against us at the hands of the Ukrainian regime, all of this remains to be discussed. *** Key points from the questions and answers.