DUSHANBE, June 15, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow on Sunday on sidelines of the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council that was held there yesterday.

According to the MFA information department, the sides discussed state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries and exchanged views on the process of implementation of agreements reached during President Rahmon’s working visit to Moscow in February this year.

Zarifi and Lavrov also considered the upcoming visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Tajikistan as well as regional and international issues being of mutual interest.  They also discussed cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia within framework of regional and international organizations, the information department said.