OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2009. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov Speaks by Telephone to Head of the Federal Department (Minister) of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Micheline Calmy-Rey

A telephone conversation took place on March 17 between Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Head of the Federal Department (Minister) of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey.

Lavrov and Calmy-Rey continued exchanging views on topical issues of the international agenda, taking into account, inter alia, the lending of good offices in relations between Russia and Georgia by the Swiss Confederation. They highly assessed the fact of commencement of the functioning on March 5, 2009, of the Russian Federation Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tbilisi under the concluded intergovernmental agreement. The analogous Georgian Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland began work in Moscow on the same day.

Discussion of a schedule of upcoming Russian-Swiss political contacts in the current year took place, along with some other questions of mutual interest.