On January 31, Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held a briefing for the involved heads of diplomatic missions of Arab states accredited in Moscow following the first visit of an official Russian interdepartmental delegation to Damascus on January 28 after the regime change in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The meeting participants unanimously agreed that it was important to consolidate international efforts in order to help normalise the situation in Syria based on the principles of respect for its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity.
