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RIA Novosti
The delegation of deputies of the state Duma together with representatives of the PACE met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
As reported RIA Novosti, the meeting lasted about three hours.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the state Duma and members of the PACE Chairman Pedro Agramunt have arrived in Syria.
The Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky, who also arrived in Damascus, said that on the European side, the delegation included about ten parliamentarians from Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Serbia and Belgium.