Russia's Lavrov never accepted invite, now withdrawn, to visit Britain: Foreign Ministry

Reuters

14 March 2018 at 10:59 am

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a news conference after a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Moscow, Russia March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had not accepted an invite to visit Britain, a ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday, after British Prime Minister Theresa May that the invite was withdrawn.

"May 'retracted' an invitation to Lavrov to visit Britain. Except he hadn't accepted it in the first place," spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her official Facebook page.

Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday May said Britain would revoke the invitation and suspend all planned high level bilateral contacts between London and Moscow, in response to the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal on its territory.

(Reporting by Denis Pinchuk and Maxim Rodionov; Writing by Polina Ivanova)

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