PNA leader Abbas to visit Russia in June

MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - The head of the Palestinian National Administration Mahmoud Abbas is planning to visit Russia in June and hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said.

"This month Russia will be visited by Mahmoud Abbas - the president of the Palestinian state - for talks with Vladimir Putin," he said while reading out a greeting from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the attendees of a session of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society.