“The Meeting focused on organisational and technical issues of cooperation between FIFA and RUSADA,” the agency said in a statement published on its official website.

The meeting was held at FIFA’s headquarters in Moscow.

RUSADA's Deputy Director General on International Cooperation and Anti-Doping Issues Margarita Pakhnotskaya, the World Anti-Doping Agency's international expert Eva Lukashute-Stanikuniene and a member of FIFA's medical and anti-doping department Anya Koenig also took part in the meeting.

Russia's first-ever FIFA World Cup will be held between 14 June and 15 July at 12 arenas in 11 cities across the country. Teams will play in Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.