OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis is to pay a three-day visit to Moscow Feb. 1 to discuss protracted conflicts, interethnic threats, energy security, freedom of speech and ways of strengthening the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The issues are among the priorities of Lithuanian chairmanship of the OSCE taken over from Kazakhstan Jan. 1.

During his visit, the Lithuanian FM is to hold meetings with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Chairman for International Affairs Committee. Russian State Duma, Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Russian Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov, RF Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, as well as with civil society representatives, experts and journalists.

On arriving at the Domodedovo airport, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office is to lay a wreath at the wall where a suicide bomber committed a terrorist act that claimed 35 lives, leaving 120 injured.