VLADIKAVKAZ, August 30 (RIA Novosti correspondent Albina Olisayeva) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet on September 2 with members of the Mothers of Beslan committee, which was set up in the wake of the terrorist atrocity in the North Caucasus town of Beslan in 2004.

"The delegation will comprise four members of the Mothers of Beslan committee and three members of the [town's] public council," said Mairbek Tuayev, the council's chairman.

Putin said Monday that he was ready to meet with committee activists and had already given the relevant instructions to his aides.

"I have tasked (presidential envoy to Russia's Southern Federal District Dmitry( Kozak with making the relevant arrangements," the president said in the Black Sea resort of Sochi after talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

The Beslan hostage tragedy claimed the lives of 330 people, including 186 children. Terrorists held parents, pupils and staff hostage for three days in a local school before troops stormed the building. In all, 918 people were rescued.