Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem will visit Russia on April 13-15 to discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the recent strike by the United States on Syria.

“At the invitation of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on April 13-15, Syrian Foreign Minister Mr. Moallem will pay a working visit to Russia… Possible joint steps will be considered to minimize the negative consequences of this gross violation of international law [the US attack on Syria’s airbase] for international and regional peace and security,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing Wednesday.

Zakharova added that Lavrov, Moallem and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will hold trilateral talks in Moscow on April 14.

Earlier this week, Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad told Sputnik that Moallem would visit Moscow soon in relation to the latest events in the Syrian province of Idlib and the US attack on a Syrian airbase.

On Tuesday, chairman of the Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky said that a permanent parliamentary trilateral committee composed of Russian, Syrian and Iranian lawmakers may be established in the near future, with the decision expected to be made after the trilateral talks on April 14.

Source: Sputnik