MOSCOW. July 13 (Interfax) - Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met with Director of the German Foreign Ministry Department for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East Clemens von Goetze in Moscow to discuss the Syrian crisis, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"Particular focus was on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the developments in Syria in the context of the task of consolidating international efforts in favor of peaceful resolution of the internal political crisis in this country on the basis of implementation of the plan proposed by United Nations -Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan and the resolutions of the Geneva meeting of the Action Group on Syria," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.