Report: Muallem Meets with March 8 Officials at Syrian Embassy
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has met with March 8 officials at the Syrian embassy in Yarze, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The daily said the meeting was held over dinner on Tuesday night.
Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdulkarim Ali has previously organized such meetings given that Lebanon has become an itinerary for Syrian officials traveling abroad.
Muallem's deputy Faisal al-Meqdad and Syrian President Bashar Assad's advisor Buthaina Shaaban in addition to other top officials attended the meeting before traveling to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, said al-Akhbar.
The newspaper published a list of invitees from the March 8 alliance. It included the names of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's aide, Hussein Khalil, Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad, Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, who is Speaker Nabih Berri's aide, Marada movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh, Minister Elias Bou Saab as a representative of Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun and other officials.
The Syrian and Lebanese officials discussed several issues, including the presidential deadlock and an electoral draft-law, said al-Akhbar.
The Syrian state-run News Agency, SANA, said last week that the situation in Syria will be high on the agenda of the talks between the Syrian delegation and Russian officials in Moscow.
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