ANTALYA, March 10 (TASS) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will take part in the diplomatic forum in Antalya on Thursday and will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba on the forum sidelines with participation of Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Lavrov will speak at a special session of the Forum on the current situation in the world and the Russian position on current regional and international problems, official spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said.

The scheduled meeting with Kuleba will be the first high-level contact between the parties after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Three rounds of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations have already been held in Belarus.