MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday morning to meet with the ministry's leadership, an Interfax correspondent reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his deputies and heads of ministry departments, ambassadors at large, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Foreign Policy Aide Yury Ushakov, and members of parliament are present at the meeting.
Putin has not met with Russian diplomats in such a format before.
The president usually attends either meetings of the Russian Foreign Ministry's board or regular conferences with Russian ambassadors.