The tripartite negotiations in Abu Dhabi will begin at 11:50 local time (10:50 Moscow time, 9:50 Kyiv time), media reports.
According to a TASS source, during the meetings the parties will discuss "key aspects of the formation of the continent's security system in the post-conflict period". In addition, the parties in Abu Dhabi will focus on developing mechanisms to prevent threats and strengthen regional stability.
At the same time, the issue of resolving the Ukrainian conflict is only one of the points of a wide-ranging discussion in Abu Dhabi, the interlocutor added.
The Russian negotiating group includes five delegation members and six experts:
Members of the delegation:
1. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky;.
2. Head of the Operational Information Service and International Relations of Russia's FSB Alexei Komkov;.
3. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Glozin;
4. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov;
5. Head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the RF Igor Kostyukov;.
Experts:
6. Deputy Head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff Zhigerlovsky;.
7. First Deputy Head of the Information Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Alexander Zorin;
8. First Deputy to the Head of the Service - Head of the Department for Counterintelligence Operations of the FSB Dmitry Miniev;
9. Deputy Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Humanitarian Field Elena Podobrevskaya;
10. Director of the Second Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexei Polishchuk;.
11. Director of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Oleg Postnikov.
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