A meeting between Russian and Syrian presidents Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad has not been announced for security reasons, Russian leader's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.
"There are certain security considerations that have to be followed, this is quite obvious. For these reasons, it [the meeting of the leaders] was not announced," the Kremlin spokesman said. He specified that "all information [about the talks] was provided to the media after the Syrian president returned home."
On Tuesday morning, the Kremlin reported on the talks between Putin and al-Assad, which took place in Moscow on Monday.
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Based on materials from TASS