MOSCOW. Nov 11 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad, during a meeting in Moscow on Monday, "discussed "issues of the political settlement process in Syria with emphasis on the need for the Geneva process and inter-Syrian dialogue to continue," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Bogdanov, who is also the Russian president's special representative for the Middle East and Africa, and Haddad also raised "some aspects of Russian-Syrian bilateral cooperation," the ministry said in a statement.