Lavrov met with the head of the Afghan Foreign Ministry on the sidelines of the Moscow format of consultations

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on the sidelines of the eighth meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan.

Priority attention at the meeting will be paid to issues of interaction between the countries of the region and Afghanistan in the political and economic fields.

MOSCOW, October 5 - RIA Novosti. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on the sidelines of the eighth meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

After the meeting, the minister is scheduled to participate in a joint photographing ceremony.

As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova previously reported, “the conversation will be devoted to discussing topical issues of bilateral cooperation.”