Lavrov holding talks with Turkish FM

NIZHNY NOVGOROD. June 11 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan are holding talks on the sidelines of a meeting of the BRICS Council of Foreign Ministers in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod.

Lavrov asked Fidan when he had arrived in Nizhny Novgorod. Fidan said that he had arrived in Nizhny Novgorod only an hour ago from Moscow.

"I've heard you had useful meetings in Moscow," Lavrov said.