| During the exchange, which lasted less than 10 minutes, Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed support for Ukraine and urged Sergei Lavrov to reverse Russia's decision to suspend participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty and accept a U.S. proposal to release detained U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, a senior State Department official familiar with the conversation said. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the G-20 summit for foreign ministers in India. |
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