UN Secretary-General to visit Russia to discuss nuclear security,

MOSCOW, April 21 (Itar-Tass) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
will visit Russia on April 21-23 as part of his European tour to discuss
nuclear security and the situation in Libya.
On April 22, Ban will meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the
presidential press service said.
On the same day the U.N. secretary-general will take the floor at an
expanded session of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security
Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and confer with CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai
Bordyuzha.
The session will be attended by CIS Executive Committee Chairman
Sergei Lebedev, EurAsEC Secretary-General Tair Mansurov, ambassadors of
the CSTO countries, chairmen of the State Duma and Federation Council
committees for CIS affairs, for foreign relations, for security, as well
as representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the press service said.
Ban will meet with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss pressing
issues of international security.
The U.N. secretary-general's talks in Moscow are expected to focus on
the situation in Libya, the Middle East settlement and the aftermath of
disasters in Japan.
This is Ban's fourth visit to Russia as the U.N. secretary-general.
The first one took place in April 2008 when he met with President Vladimir
Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev, as well as Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov, the State Duma leadership, and public organisations'
leaders.
In March 2009, Ban was in Moscow to attend an international conference
on Afghanistan. A year later he visited the Russian capital for a meeting
of the Middle East Quartet and a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.