Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Mishustin MikhailPrime Minister of the Russian Federation , Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko Matviyenko ValentinaChairwoman of the Council of Federation , State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin Volodin VyacheslavChairman of the State Duma , Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation , Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino Vaino AntonChief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office , Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu Shoigu SergeiSecretary of the Russian Federation Security Council , Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President , Defence Minister Andrei Belousov Belousov AndreiDefence Minister of the Russian Federation , Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister of the Russian Federation , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Lavrov SergeiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation , Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov Bortnikov AlexanderDirector of the Federal Security Service , Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin Naryshkin SergeiDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service , and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport .

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, good afternoon.

Today we will discuss several issues concerning our work with our closest friends, colleagues, partners, and allies. Let us begin with cooperation in the Caspian region.

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