Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The meeting’s participants continued their exchange of views in preparation for the top-level international contacts that will take place on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum and discussed some matters of substance related to Mr Putin’s upcoming address at the forum’s plenary session.

The need to learn from France’s experience in organising football events in the context of the preparing for the 2018 football world cup in Russia was also a subject of discussion.

Current international and regional issues were also on the agenda at the meeting.

Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev Dmitry Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation , Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko Matviyenko Valentina Matviyenko ValentinaChairwoman of the Council of Federation , State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin Naryshkin Sergei Naryshkin SergeiDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service , Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov Ivanov Sergei Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport , Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Lavrov Sergei Lavrov SergeiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation , Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev Vladimir Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister of the Russian Federation , Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu Shoigu Sergei Shoigu SergeiSecretary of the Russian Federation Security Council , Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov Bortnikov Alexander Bortnikov AlexanderDirector of the Federal Security Service , Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov Fradkov Mikhail Fradkov MikhailDirector of Russian Institute for Strategic Studies , and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev.