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Moscow - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss the situation in Ukraine in the context of implementing the Minsk agreements dated Feb. 12 at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on March 2.

“Indeed a meeting between the Russian foreign minister and the U.S. secretary of state will take place in Geneva on March 2,” Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told journalists on Feb. 27.

“The agenda will be the most topical, pressing and acute: everything related to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The focus will be on the situation in the situation in Ukraine,” he said.

“We proceed from that the Middle East subject, including Syria, will also be raised at the meeting. Of course the conversation cannot fail to touch on the Iranian nuclear program as the negotiations move forward. As March is approaching their intensity has grown,” Ryabkov said.