Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

Attending the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Mishustin MikhailPrime Minister of the Russian Federation, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko Matviyenko ValentinaChairwoman of the Council of Federation, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin Volodin VyacheslavChairman of the State Duma, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu Shoigu SergeiSecretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov Belousov AndreiDefence Minister of the Russian Federation, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Lavrov SergeiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport, as well as Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina Nabiullina ElviraGovernor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia).

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.

Today, I suggest that we discuss measures for establishing an international payment system.

We are all aware that this is a serious task in the current environment and one of the biggest challenges we face. Overall, this work is progressing steadily, but it is important to address any issues promptly and to plan the steps necessary to overcome the difficulties that are being created outside our borders for us.

Let us get down to work.

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