Time for Mogherini to visit Russia has not come yet - Russian Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - The time for a visit to Russia of European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini has not come yet, Andrei Kelin, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of European Cooperation, said in an interview with Interfax.
"Contacts continue at the level of our Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Federica Mogherini on the sidelines of various forums," he said.
"This dialogue mechanism is working," Kelin said.
"As to a visit by Federica Mogherini to Russia, the time has not come for it yet," the diplomat said.
Mogherini was appointed European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on August 30, 2014. She has never visited Russia in that capacity.