Tag: Mikhail Bogdanov

"We expect that our Israeli partners will take a more balanced and objective position regarding the developments in Ukraine."

Since May 20, when Abbas announced that all cooperation with Israel, the IDF has not initiated arrests of terror suspects in the PA.

The fact is, the world is not interested in innovative peace plans, they don't want to read them and they certainly don't wish to appear as if they support it.

On Tuesday, Bogdanov attended a meeting in Moscow with Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat on the Iranian presence in Syria.

Bogdanov surprised the Israeli ambassador when he responded, "You are talking to Hamas yourselves."

"It is not in Israel’s interest to add a serious country such as Russia to the list of its opponents."

"Only after that, we will make a decision on our embassy move," Bogdanov said.

Moscow maintains regular contacts with Hamas, and the latest visit to Russia of a Hamas delegation was in March 2018.

One of those zones was supposed to be handed over to Iran, which was planning to rule over the rebel-controlled south, along the Syrian border with Israel and Jordan.

The two leaders 'are also expected to discuss key aspects of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.'

According to Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Netanyahu hold regular telephone conversations.

The timing of the revelation did not escape PA Arab representatives, who have been flooding Israeli media Thursday morning with profuse denials of the charges.

"President Putin offered to meet in Moscow on September 9," Abbas said. "I agreed. I was to fly to Moscow from here (Warsaw) to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu."

Netanyahu said he was reviewing the Russian President's proposal and the timing of a possible meeting with Abbas.

When Netanyahu and Putin spoke on the phone last week, the summit idea was part of their discussion.

A week ago, Putin’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, discussed advancing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks with Abbas in Amman.

Signaling the Russians' intense interest in remaining involved in the process, TASS on Friday ran five different stories involving Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the peace agreement.