Lavrov to attend CIS Council of Foreign Ministers meeting on October 7
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said two additional events will also take place that day, with upper house speaker Valentina Matviyenko attending.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will take part in a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers on October 7, according to TASS, citing Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov.
Ushakov said two further events are scheduled to take place on the same day, October 7, as part of a broader set of engagements involving the Commonwealth of Independent States. Russia's upper house speaker, Valentina Matviyenko, will take part in those additional events, the report said.
TASS's report does not specify the full agenda for the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting or detail the nature of the two other events Ushakov referenced. The gathering comes shortly before President Vladimir Putin's planned visit to Turkmenistan for a CIS heads-of-state summit on October 8 and 9, suggesting the foreign ministers' meeting may serve as preparatory groundwork for the leaders' summit.
The CIS Council of Foreign Ministers typically meets to coordinate diplomatic positions and prepare materials for higher-level summits among the organisation's member states, a group of former Soviet republics that maintain varying degrees of political, economic and security cooperation.
Further details on the location of the October 7 meetings and the full list of attending foreign ministers were not provided in the available report.
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