MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax) - The BRICS ministerial meeting will be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in late September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"We discussed preparations for the [BRICS] summit in Kazan this coming October and for the BRICS ministerial meeting in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at the end of this month," Lavrov told reporters on Monday following talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.
Egypt's joining BRICS gave a considerable impetus to the development of relations between the two countries, he said.