MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with members of the Russian Security Council on Friday to discuss the situation in Yemen, including its impacts on the global economy, the process of Ukrainian settlement, and a number of other problems, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
"Along with topical problems of the socio-economic domestic agenda, they discussed various international issues, such as the implementation of the Minsk agreements," he said.
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"Also in focus was the situation in Yemen, including its possible impacts on the global economic situation," Peskov said.
Speakers of both houses of the Russian parliament, Valentina Matviyenko of the Federation Council and Sergey Naryshkin of the State Duma, chief of the Kremlin administration Sergey Ivanov, Security Council secretary Nikolay Patrushev and his deputy Rashid Nurgaliyev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, directors of the Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service, Alexander Bortnikov and Mikhail Fradkov respectively, and permanent member of the Russian Security Council Boris Gryzlov were taking part in the meeting.