Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, receives an award of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry from his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makey at a signing ceremony following a joint meeting of the foreign ministries of Russia and Belarus at the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk, Belarus. Lavrov arrived in the Belarusian capital on November 25 evening for talks which include discussions on the situation in Belarus and key bilateral and international issues.