MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Slovak counterpart Juraj Blanar discussed Moscow's and Bratislava's positions on the Ukrainian settlement, as well as the crisis in relations between Russia and the EU, the Foreign Ministry reported.

Blanar arrived in Moscow, heading a Slovak delegation, to participate in the 22nd meeting of the bilateral Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation.

"A number of practical issues concerning Russian-Slovak relations, the prospects for developing political dialogue, and cooperation in the trade, economic, cultural, humanitarian, and military-memorial spheres were discussed in a constructive manner. [The sides] exchanged views on the situation around Ukraine and the crisis in relations between Russia and the EU," Russian diplomats said in a statement.