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Meeting with permanent members of Security Council

June 1, 2021, Sochi

The President held a videoconference meeting on current matters with permanent members of the Security Council.

Attending the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin, and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.

One of Russia’s main foreign policy priorities is our relations with our closest neighbours, namely the republics of the former Soviet Union. This is why today we will address one of the aspects of this work.

Let us begin.

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June 1, 2021, Sochi