MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - Russia will support the Palestinian request to the United Nations to recognize the independence of the Palestinian state, said Azzam Al-Ahmad, a representative from the Fatah movement's central committee.
"At our meeting yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed Russia's support for this process [the request to the UN to recognize the Palestinian independence]," he told a press conference in Moscow.