MOSCOW, April 6 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to visit Ukraine on April 9-10, according to Ukraine's Foreign Ministry.

During his visit, Lavrov will take part in a meeting of the subcommittee on international cooperation of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission. The Ukrainian part of the subcommittee will be chaired by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko, Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Andriy Nesterenko said.

"The upcoming meeting between Lavrov and Hryschenko will be the third in the past two months, which is the evidence of the vigorous political dialogue between Russia and Ukraine," Nesterenko said in an interview posted on the Web site of the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.