Attending the meeting were Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin.
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Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
Today we will focus on one of the key priorities of our policy: our work in the CIS region. We will discuss cooperation with a number of CIS countries, highlight the issues of greatest importance for us in this sphere, and outline what we consider to be our immediate steps and objectives moving forward.
Now I give the floor to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. After that, each of us will have the opportunity to speak in turn.
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