Javad Zarif who is participating in the international Valdai Discussion Club’s conference 2018 in Moscow held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov after the event, IRNA reported.

They discussed ways for strengthening bilateral ties, main issues and crises of the region, latest developments in Yemen and Syria, and the results of the Sochi talks on Syria.

Other topics of the talks between the two FMs were strengthening relations on tourism, holding joint economic committee, promoting banking ties, Caspian Sea, and political initiatives to resolve the Syrian crisis and the necessity to end the war in Yemen, as well as sending humanitarian aids to the war-torn country.

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