Russia will hold a special ministerial meeting at the United Nations Security Council on September 30 to discuss conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa.
Russia took over the UN Security Council presidency for a month as of the beginning of September.
“There are new initiatives related to our presidency of the Security Council in September,” the new agency RIA quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying. “The special meeting will be devoted to discussion of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the context of a terrorism threat.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Russia next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the expanding Russian military presence in Syria, an Israeli official said on Wednesday.
“The prime minister will present the threats to Israel emanating from the increased flow of advanced weaponry to the Syrian arena and from the transfer of lethal weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups,” the official said.
Moscow has come under international pressure to explain its moves in Syria, where the Kremlin has been supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a four-year-old civil war.
