Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Beijing on Saturday ahead of next week’s APEC summit, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Beijing on Saturday ahead of next week's APEC summit, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.

"The meeting between Lavrov and Kerry is planned for November 8 on the sidelines of the preparations for the APEC summit in Beijing," the agencies quoted a source at the foreign ministry as saying.

Russia's Vladimir Putin is travelling to Beijing Sunday to hold talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and take part in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. He will not meet US President Barack Obama, the Kremlin said this week.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is to be held in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday, while the G20 will convene in Australia days later, on November 15-16.

Relations between Russia and the United States have become the iciest since the end of the Cold War after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March.