 "Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 24, 2024. Image- AFP")
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas at a BRICS summit in Russia on Thursday.
“We are strongly for a quick end to the bloodshed (in Gaza),” Putin told Abbas in televised comments, in the pair’s second meeting since August.
The BRICS summit, attended by more than 20 leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, has shown the depth of Russia’s relations beyond the Western world.
Earlier today, Putin said that unless Palestinians got their state, they would feel the burden of “historical injustice” and the region would remain in “an atmosphere of permanent crisis with inevitable relapses of large-scale violence.”
BRICS leaders in their summit declaration called for the establishment of a sovereign, independent and viable Palestinian state within the borders of 1967. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attended the summit.
With inputs from agencies.