MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will host a videoconference with Russian Security Council permanent members in the second half of Tuesday, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
Putin is working at the Kremlin on Tuesday, Peskov said. "After 3:00 p.m., he will host a videoconference with Security Council permanent members," Peskov said, adding that the conference will begin with the president's introductory remarks open to the media, in which he will outline the conference's agenda.
Putin usually holds such meetings with Security Council members on Fridays.
"In the second half of the day, the president will receive Wang Yi, director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee's Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission and Chinese foreign minister, an old friend whose role in the development of Russian-Chinese relations is hard to overestimate," Peskov said, adding that, as per tradition, the Russian and Chinese presidents receive government ministers during their visits.
"President Putin continues this practice," he said.
Putin has several more nonpublic contacts planned for Tuesday, he said.