MOSCOW, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira will participate in the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, which begins on Friday in Atlanta, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti.

Minister Mauro Vieira's participation in the G20 foreign ministers' meeting has been confirmed, the ministry said.

When asked by RIA Novosti whether any meetings between Vieira and the Russian delegation were planned on the sidelines of the G20 event, the ministry said that the minister's schedule of bilateral meetings would be released at a later time.

On October 28, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov would lead the Russian delegation at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, scheduled to take place in Atlanta on October 30–31.

The G20 is a forum through which the world's major economies develop common approaches to key global challenges in the financial and economic spheres. The United States currently holds the G20 presidency. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta precedes the G20 summit, which is set to take place in Miami on December 14–15.

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