MOSCOW. June 19 (Interfax) - The upcoming meeting between Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, his Israeli colleague Meir Ben Shabbat, and U.S. presidential National Security Adviser John Bolton is highly important, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"It's a highly important contact. There will be a very important exchange of opinions on the situation in the region, including the Middle Eastern settlement, the settlement process in Syria, and other issues that the parties will find it necessary to discuss," Peskov said.
Peskov was told during a meeting with journalists on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had earlier, during his visit to Russia, brought a map of Syria on which "the positions of Iranian forces" in the country were marked. In this regard, the press secretary was asked what Israel had suggested for Syria then and whether that proposal would be discussed again in the upcoming Patrushev-Bolton-Shabbat talks.
"Ask Israel [about that]," Peskov said.
A trilateral meeting will be held in Jerusalem on June 24-25.