3+3 format meeting to be held without media

The meeting of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the foreign ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Iran is to be held on Friday at 5 p.m. in the presidential office at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, it will be closed to the media, the office of the Turkish President told RIA Novosti.

The Foreign Ministers of the member states of the 3+3 regional platform on the South Caucasus will meet in Istanbul on Friday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Turkey on Thursday evening. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Lavrov will hold a number of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the event.