Russian FM announces meeting with US Secretary of State on sidelines of ASEAN in the Philippines

By  News On Air   Jul 22, 2026

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced today that he will be meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tomorrow, on the sidelines of the ongoing multilateral Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) events in the Philippines.

Mr. Lavrov mentioned that he met with Mr. Rubio briefly at a reception in Manila yesterday, where it was confirmed that the meeting would take place tomorrow. He said, Russia still operates on the assumption that the United States has not abandoned the proposals voiced last August at the Russian-American summit in Anchorage. 

Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told Senators that Russia and China were helping Iran as Tehran resumed attacks on commercial shipping and the United States intensified military operations around the Strait of Hormuz.