Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The meeting participants touched upon the developments in Syria, in view of the talks with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu Benjamin Netanyahu BenjaminPrime Minister of Israel held on Thursday.

In addition, they discussed the preparations for the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council meeting and the International Arctic Forum in St Petersburg, both scheduled for next week, as well as international contacts on the sidelines of this event.

Pressing socioeconomic matters were also discussed.

The meeting was attended by 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 , State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin Volodin Vyacheslav Volodin VyacheslavChairman of the State Duma , Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino Vaino Anton Vaino AntonChief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office , Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev Patrushev Nikolai Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President , Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev Vladimir Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister of the Russian Federation , Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov Bortnikov Alexander Bortnikov AlexanderDirector of the Federal Security Service , Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin Naryshkin Sergei Naryshkin SergeiDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service , and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov Ivanov Sergei Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport .