On the eve of the meeting with the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting. Issues related to the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh and the situation in the South Caucasus were discussed during the meeting, kremlin.ru reports.
The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrush, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, the Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin.
