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Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock after a press statement during the UN General Assembly
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A planned meeting between Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Russia's chief diplomat Sergey Lavrov in New York has fallen through.
"After they asked their questions about negotiations with Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and received a date proposal from the Russian side, the EU delegations disappeared from the radar," wrote the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on her Telegram channel.
The 46-year-old apparently also referred to an initiated conversation between Baerbock and Lavrov.
In the run-up to the general debate in New York, there had been contacts between the local delegations.
The dpa news agency learned from diplomatic circles that it was about the possibility of a talk between Baerbock and her Russian counterpart on the security of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
The meeting did not take place.
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been heavily contested in recent weeks.
The plant was hit several times, which increased international concern about a nuclear accident.
An observer mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was able to visit the nuclear power plant in early September.
However, the majority of the experts left on the same day, only two IAEA employees remained on site.
The shelling of the nuclear power plant then continued.
The nuclear authority called the risk of accidents "significant" in their investigation report and recently called for a protection zone to be built around the power plant.
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