OREANDA-NEWS. On December 4, a meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Dora Bakoyanni took place in Helsinki on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting.

In the course of the meeting the two examined topical questions of OSCE activity in the light of Greece’s upcoming chairmanship of this organization in 2009, and discussed a schedule of near-term bilateral political contacts.