Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.

The discussion focussed on the situation in southeast Ukraine in light of the upcoming election on November 2. Mr Putin informed the meeting’s participants on the details of a telephone conversation in the ‘Normandy format’ the night before and expressed satisfaction at the conclusion of agreements with Ukraine and the European Commission on settling the gas issue.

The meeting’s participants also exchanged views on the successful launches of a modernised Soyuz 2.1a rocket and of a Bulava missile, launched by the submarine Yury Dolgoruky.

Taking part in the meeting were Federation Council Speaker 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 Patrushev Nikolai Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President , 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 Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov Fradkov Mikhail Fradkov MikhailDirector of Russian Institute for Strategic Studies , Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev Nurgaliyev Rashid Nurgaliyev RashidFirst Deputy Secretary of the Security Council , and permanent member of the Security Council Boris Gryzlov Gryzlov Boris Gryzlov BorisAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Belarus .