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Russian foreign minister to visit Greece in coming weeks

MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to pay a working visit to Greece in the coming weeks, a Russian diplomat told a forum of the Russian-Greek civil societies in Moscow on Wednesday.

"In the near future a session of the intergovernmental commission for economic and trade cooperation will be held," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said. "In the coming weeks Lavrov will visit Greece," he said.

The relations between the two countries are developing steadily, the diplomat said. "This year Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Greece," he said, reminding that Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also paid a visit to Russia.