Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The meeting participants discussed the preparations for the Russia-ASEAN Summit, which will take place later this week.

They also exchanged views on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution efforts in the context of yesterday’s meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Vienna.

In addition, they continued the discussion started at the State Council meeting earlier today about developing the construction sector and improving urban planning and the mortgage system.

A number of other issues on the domestic agenda were also touched upon.

The meeting was attended by 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 , Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev Patrushev Nikolai Patrushev NikolaiSecretary of the Russian Federation Security Council , Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev Vladimir Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister , Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu Shoigu Sergei Shoigu SergeiDefence Minister , Head 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 Nurgaliyev Rashid Nurgaliyev RashidFirst Deputy Secretary of the Security Council .