Putin, Aoun discuss Syrian refugee crisis, regional issues
President Putin and President Aoun hold wide-ranging talks, including about the return of refugees to Syria, and Lebanon indicates that despite its issues with Washington, strong US-Lebanese government ties are going to continue.
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During the two-day visit, Aoun met with, among others, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, and Igor Sechin, the chairman of Rosneft Corp. At the meeting with Putin, attended on the Russian side by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov and Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin, the Lebanese president was accompanied by his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, and daughter, Mireille Aoun al-Hashem, who works as a senior presidential adviser.
