Lavrov could visit Washington in July - source

MOSCOW/MINSK. May 31 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry is working out a possibility of a bilateral meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington in mid-July.

"Such a visit has long been worked out. The main goal is to prepare for the visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to Russia before the end of this year," a source from the Foreign Ministry told Interfax.