Lebanon's foreign minister Gebran Bassil was due on Friday to hold talks with Sergei Lavrov and afterwards to hold a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart, Lebanese news agency Nna reported.
Bassil Italian met Italy's foreign minister Angelino Alfano on Wednesday in Rome as part of a diplomatic tour of Europe's capitals for bilateral meetings on Lebanon's current political crisis.
The political crisis erupted on 4 November with the shock resignation of premier Saad Hariri in a broadcast message from Saudi Arabia.
In the message, Hariri, a Sunni Muslim with Saudi ties, accused Iran of meddling in Lebanon and sowing "discord, devastation and destruction" in the Middle East and, claiming there was an assassination plot against him.
