The Ambassador said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov handed an official invitation to this meeting to Rouhani while visiting Tehran.
He added, “Apart from the session itself, a conference of the foreign ministers of the five littoral nations (Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan) is expected to take place in Moscow in spring as a milestone event in preparing the Astrakhan summit.”
The 3rd meeting of the heads of the Caspian states was held in Baku.