European ministers did not agree to appear next to Lavrov and the Group of 20 souvenir photo was canceled American officials, hosting the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, canceled the joint photo session after the European diplomats refused to stand next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for a souvenir photo. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is chairing this meeting in Atlanta. After the commemorative photo was removed, a British official said that since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Britain has had a long-standing policy of not having direct, bilateral contact with Russian ministers and has no intention of changing that policy.