TEHRAN – A delegation of ranking Russian diplomats visited Tehran on Saturday to hold talks with Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior advisor to the Iranian foreign minister for political affairs, about the latest developments in Syria and Yemen.

The Russian delegation included Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin, Tasnim reported.

During the meeting, the two sides discussed the upcoming conference in Russia’s Sochi on the settlement of the Syrian crisis, as well as obstacles to the formation of a Syrian constitutional committee.

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