"VAN" (International Desk - 18.10.2021) :: President Bashar al-Assad received on Sunday Russian President’s Special Envoy for Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Vershinin and an accompanying delegation. Talks during the meeting dealt with the standing cooperation between Syria and Russia in the war on terror, and coordination on the economic and commercial levels. Lavrentiev and Vershinin said that this visit comes within President Putin’s directives to boost this cooperation and expand work with Syria in all fields and at all levels, reiterating that Russia is ready to actively contribute to the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation of infrastructure destroyed by terrorism and to establish investment partnerships with Syria in the fields of energy and agriculture in a way that achieves the interests of the two friendly peoples and contributes to activating the Syrian economy. SANA
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