The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology, and Transport Sergei Ivanov, and Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev.
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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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