MOSCOW. April 20 (Interfax) - The Russian president's special representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, met on Monday with Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad.
Bogdanov and Haddad discussed "the situation in Syria and developments on the Syria issue with emphasis on the task of seeking the earliest possible political settlement of the Syrian crisis," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The meeting had been requested by Haddad, the statement said.