Lavrov will hold several bilateral contacts on the sidelines of the Kitten Summit Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold several bilateral contacts on the sidelines of the conference on interaction and confidence-building measures in Asia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Interfax. "As usually happens, the minister has a large number of contacts on the sidelines of multilateral events," Zakharova said, answering a question about the possibility of a meeting between Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Piden in Baku.