Top Assad officials in Moscow to discuss Syria talks
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A senior Syrian regime delegation was Monday in Moscow to hold talks with top Russian diplomats on plans to hold a peace conference in Geneva to end the Syria conflict, the foreign ministry said.
President Bashar Assad's presidential adviser Buthaina Shaaban and Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad were in Moscow and would hold talks with Gennady Gatilov and Mikhail Bogdanov, both Russian deputy foreign ministers, it said. "The official Syrian delegation has arrived in Moscow and will hold talks at the foreign ministry," the Russian foreign ministry was quoted as saying by the Interfax. (AFP)
