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According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in New York.

In a Telegram post on Sunday night, the spokeswoman confirmed Lavrov arrived in New York's capital and stated a UN Security Council meeting would take place under his chairmanship on Monday.

On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will preside over a high-level open discussion at the UN Security Council (UNSC) on successful multilateralism via the defense of the UN Charter's tenets. They will meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York.

The senior Russian diplomat is anticipated to go through a variety of topics with Guterres including Russia-UN ties and a number of collaborative initiatives, including the Black Sea grain project.

Lavrov will deliver a thorough, strategic discussion on the foundations of global peace and security in his address to the UNSC. The maintenance of the UN Charter's democratic foundations, which are founded on the sovereign equality of nations, will get special attention in the discussion.

In a subsequent post, Zakharova stated that about three million people tracked Lavrov's trip from Moscow to New York on the Flightradar tracking website, a new "record."

Earlier, Lavrov announced that a Russian delegation would visit Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

Lavrov further stressed that it was in this "spirit of strategic partnership" that Moscow desired to send a delegation to develop relations in Latin America, "including Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, which our delegation will pay visits to in the second half of April."

Farhan Haq, the UN Secretary General's Deputy Spokesman, did not comment on Sunday on the US rejection to give visas to Russian journalists who were meant to follow Foreign Minister Lavrov to the UN Security Council.

Moscow condemned Washington's decision not to provide visas to the journalists, claiming that the US had broken its promises to preserve free expression.