MOSCOW. March 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which was passed on by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, deals with bilateral relations and ways to settle the situation in Syria, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"It dealt with bilateral Russian-Syrian relations, as well as the process of settling the situation in Syria by political and political-diplomatic methods. That's all I can tell you," Peskov told reporters on Thursday in answering a relevant question.