UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – "It [the agreement] will promote private business contacts," Lavrov said after his Thursday meeting with Mahmud of the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Lavrov also met with Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva in New York on Thursday, as well as with Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres, who is one of the candidates for the post of UN secretary-general who could succeed Ban Ki-moon next year.
The 71st United Nations General Assembly started at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
