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PRESS RELEASE
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov Meets with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Farouk Shara
On January 26 Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov met with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Farouk Shara, who is accompanying President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar Asad in the course of his state visit to the Russian Federation.
During the conversation a mutual belief was expressed that the Russian-Syrian summit meeting will give a strong impulse to the relations of traditional friendship and fruitful cooperation between the two countries.
The ministers exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East, and inter alia on the prospects for a resumption of the negotiating process on the Syrian-Israeli and Lebanese-Israeli tracks, and discussed the issues in Palestinian-Israeli settlement and the situation in Iraq. There was reaffirmed on both sides adherence to the achievement of a comprehensive settlement in the region on the basis of the provisions of UN Security Council resolutions 242, 338 and 1515 and other relevant decisions of the international community, as well as of the Madrid principles and the Arab peace initiative, endorsed at the LAS summit in Beirut.
Lavrov confirmed the invitation to Shara to pay a visit to Moscow. The date will be arranged via diplomatic channels.
January 26, 2005
Document Type: Press Release
Country: Russian Federation, Syria
Subject: Middle East situation, Palestine question, Peace proposals and efforts, Situation in Lebanon
Publication Date: 26/01/2005