Tension at the Group 20 meeting; Accusation of lying to Lavrov and joint photo sanctions.
The meeting of foreign ministers of the "Group of 20" was held on Friday, October 30 (November 8), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in a tense atmosphere.
Kaya Callas, the EU's foreign policy chief, accused Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of telling "many lies" during the negotiations over the war in Ukraine, and during those negotiations, he showed no sign of Moscow's readiness for peace negotiations.
At the same time, the foreign ministers of the European countries refused to take a joint picture with Lavrov; The decision, said German Foreign Minister Johann Wadpel, was a reminder that "there is no normal relationship with Russia."
Kaya Callas, the European Union's foreign policy official, accused Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of lying about the Ukraine war at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in the United States. Callas told Agence France-Presse on Friday: "Of course he told a lot of lies and gave a lot of false narratives that we were later able to disprove."