Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Mishustin MikhailPrime Minister of the Russian 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, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov Belousov AndreiDefence Minister of the Russian Federation, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister of the Russian Federation, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Lavrov SergeiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov Bortnikov AlexanderDirector of the Federal Security Service, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin Naryshkin SergeiDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology, and Transport Sergei Ivanov Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport, and Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, good afternoon.

Our today's agenda includes several international matters dealing with our country and our interests. This is why we will hear reports by the Foreign Minister and the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Apart from the items on our agenda, I would like to ask you to raise and pay special attention to the most important developments we have witnessed recently.

Let us get down to work. Mr Lavrov, go ahead please.

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