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Today, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Minister Sergey Lavrov has appointed Alexander Kinshak, a special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, for Syrian settlement affairs.
According to a statement read by the ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, Kinshak’s powers will include “representing the Russian side in the context of bilateral and multilateral contacts on Syrian issues, including the Geneva and Astana formulas, to help achieve a settlement. of the situation in Syria “.
Kinshak held the position of Director of the Department of the Middle East and North Africa in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; He previously served as his country’s ambassador to Kuwait (2008-2013) and Syria (2014-2018).
Sent team
In his new role, as a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Kinshak joined three officials assigned to directly follow the Syrian dossier by the Russian authorities.
The first official directly interested in the affairs of the “Syrian settlement” was the Deputy Foreign Minister and special envoy of the Kremlin to the Middle East, Mikhail Bogdanov, who held important meetings during the last nine years with Syrian political parties and officials of the countries. involved in the Syrian dossier.
And after the “Astana formula” came to the fore on the political scene following the adoption of the plan to form the “constitutional committee”, the Kremlin’s special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, became a key member of the team. Russian in Syria, along with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin. To do this, the two officials visited Damascus and several other capitals, to promote the direction of the “Constitutional Committee.”
Parallel to the decline of the military momentum on the ground and the bilateral activity of Moscow and Damascus in the line of economic projects, the Kremlin appointed a new envoy to develop relations with Syria, the ambassador in Damascus, Alexander Yefimov, last month of may.
