Meeting with permanent members of Security Council

Meeting with permanent members of Security Council.

The participants discussed international issues and exchanged opinions on confidence-building measures over the Baltic Sea in light of the recent meeting between the presidents of Russia and Finland.

Other issues on the agenda included possible Russia-NATO contacts and the situation in Syria.

The meeting focused on control over performance-enhancing drugs in sports and the inadmissibility of their use. In particular, the participants discussed legislative initiatives to tighten responsibility for the use and encouragement of use of performance-enhancing drugs. They also spoke in favour of allowing law enforcement agencies to conduct investigations in this sphere.

The participants also exchanged opinions on the domestic economic agenda ahead of next week’s meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.

Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev Dmitry Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation , Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko Matviyenko Valentina Matviyenko ValentinaChairwoman of the Council of Federation , 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 , 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 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 .