Russia's official TASS news agency reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the United States on Friday to attend a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Atlanta. Moscow announced yesterday, Thursday, that Lavrov would use his speech there to express his rejection of international sanctions. She indicated that the meeting will be preparatory for the G20 summit scheduled to be held on December 14 and 15 in Miami. Earlier, the official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, explained that the discussion in Atlanta will be the global economy.