U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Russia on April 21-23 as part of his European tour, the Kremlin press service reported on Monday.

Ban Ki-moon will meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on April 22, the press service said.

On the same day the U.N. secretary-general will take the floor at an expanded session of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Permanent Council and confer with CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha.

The session will involve chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Sergei Lebedev, EurAsEC Secretary-General Tair Mansurov, ambassadors of the CSTO countries, chairmen of the State Duma and Federation Council committees for CIS affairs, for foreign relations, for security, as well as representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the press service said.

During the tour, the U.N. secretary-general will visit the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine.