Alwaght- Russia has reiterated its full support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
“We would like to see the Palestinians — all of them — have their permanent home,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a meeting with Khaled Meshaal, the political bureau chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the Qatari capital Doha on Monday.
The top Russian diplomat also said that his country will work for the realization of such a goal.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also posted a statement saying that Lavrov in the meeting “has confirmed the support of efforts on restoring Palestinian national unity,” Interfax reported.
The Hamas political bureau chief, for his part expressed hope that “with assistance from Russia and the whole world, this dream will come true.”
In a statement released in Gaza, Hamas said a delegation led by Mashal briefed Lavrov on conditions in the Gaza Strip, in the aftermath of last summer's Israeli regime's aggression on Gaza.
Mashal also discussed with Lavrov "Zionist terrorism in the West Bank and its assaults on Muslim and Christian sites in Quds (Jerusalem)", the statement said, three days after an arson attack by Israeli Jewish terrorists killed a Palestinian toddler.
"The (Russian) foreign minister extended an invitation to the leadership of (Hamas) to visit Moscow and the movement accepted the invitation and the date will be determined later," the official said.
Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, including East al-Quds and the Gaza Strip, and are demanding that the Israeli regime withdraws from the occupied Palestinian territories. A defiant Israeli regime, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds.
On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine’s status at the UN from “non-member observer entity” to “non-member observer state” despite strong opposition from Israel and the United States.