"6:00 p.m. LOCAL [10:00 GMT] Secretary Rubio meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia," the schedule says.
Earlier Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik that a Lavrov-Rubio meeting in Kuala Lumpur on ASEAN sidelines is being worked out.
Lavrov has arrived in Malaysia on a two-day visit, where he will take part in an annual ASEAN foreign ministerial meeting. In Kuala Lumpur, the minister will also have a meeting in the Russia-ASEAN format and participate in the work of the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum on Security.