Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin has held an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the situation in the southeastern Ukraine in the context of the forthcoming elections, his Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
The president informed the attendees about details of yesterday’s telephone conversation in the so-called “Normandy format,” the spokesman said.
“The discussion focused on the situation in southeastern Ukraine in the context of the upcoming elections on the 2nd [of November]. [The parties] expressed their satisfaction with the reaching of an agreement with Ukraine and the European Commission over the settlement of the gas dossier,” Peskov said.
The attendees also exchanged their views on the successful Russian space launch of the new upgraded Soyuz 2.1a rocket and the successful launch of the Bulava missile from the Yury Dolgoruky missile carrier.
The meeting was attended by Federation Council and State Duma Speakers Valentina Matviyenko and Sergei Naryshkin, respectively; head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Intelligence Agency Director Mikhail Fradkov, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev and Security Council Permanent Member Boris Gryzlov.
