Al-Moallem to visit Moscow on Friday, Gatilov says

Moscow, SANA-Russian deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Monday that Syrian deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem will visit Moscow next Friday.

“Al-Moallem will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on October 28^th,” Gatilov said in a statement to reporters.

In a relevant context, Gatilov announced that Moscow is ready to declare a new humanitarian pause in Aleppo if obstacles resulted by the behavior of “the opposition” and the stance of UN employees will be removed.

“We have showed a good intention and went to the cessation of hostilities and we will be ready for response in the future, but, naturally, we will take into consideration the stance of UN employees who should work effectively with the opposition groups”, Gatilov told reporters in response to the statement of German Foreign Minister.

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