MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Iraqi Kurdistan's representative office in Moscow said earlier on Monday that Salih met with Lavrov and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov to discuss the situation in the Middle East and the Kurds' participation in Syrian peace talks in Geneva.
The previous round of Syrian talks in Geneva finished on March 24. The round saw all delegations submit their settlement proposals to Syrian Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, who then produced a final paper with points of convergence between the parties.
The peace talks followed a Russian-US-brokered ceasefire deal reached on February 27. On March 14, Putin ordered Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to start withdrawing most of Russia's military contingent from Syria, which had been conducting strikes against terrorist targets since late September.
"We confirm that such a meeting has taken place," the ministry's press service said.
