MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, and Regional Director for the Middle East at the International Committee of the Red Cross, (ICRC) Robert Mardini, discussed the humanitarian situation in Syria, and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
"At the talks the sides discussed the range of humanitarian aspects of the emerging situation in the Middle East and North Africa, including Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya," says a statement, which was published on the Foreign Ministry's website on Friday, following the meeting between Bogdanov and the ICRC delegation in Moscow.
It said that both sides stated "an insistent need to provide conditions for the unhampered delivery of humanitarian aid to people in need in all crisis areas in the region."
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the ICRC representatives "highly valued Russia's role, including as part of the work with other members of the International Syria Support Group, and the Syrian government to assist international efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to the localities besieged in Syria, under the provisions of UN Security Council Resolutions 2254 and 2268."