MOSCOW
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov discussed the situation in the Middle East with the head of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, Mustafa Barghouti. in a phone call Wednesday.
The conversation was held at the initiative of the Palestinian side, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
According to the ministry, the bulk of the call concerned Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza and the growing humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.
“The issues of restoring Palestinian national unity on the political platform of the Palestine Liberation Organization were separately touched upon, including in light of the results of inter-Palestinian meetings held earlier in Moscow and Beijing,” it said.
