MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov received Syrian Ambassador to Moscow Riyad Haddad on Monday.
"There was a thorough exchange of opinions on developments in Syria and around it at the talks. The necessity of a political settlement in that country in compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254, taking into consideration the outcomes of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi, was emphasized," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.
Russia confirmed that it wants "to take further joint efforts with the Syrians to achieve long-term normalization in Syria and ensure its sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity, taking into account, among other things, the outcomes of the trilateral meeting of the leaders of the guarantor states of the Astana Process in Tehran on September 7 and the Russian-Turkish summit in Sochi on September 17," the ministry said.