Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was appointed new presidential envoy to the Middle East, RIA-Novosti reports referring to the Kremlin press-service.
Bogdanov will replace Alexander Saltanov, who became last year vice president in charge of international affairs at the state monopoly Russian Railways.
Bogdanov, 59, a graduate of the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations, entered the diplomatic service in 1974 and served in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
In 2005, he was appointed Russia’s ambassador to Egypt and envoy to the Arab League, a regional bloc of 22 countries that is now trying to mediate an end to a bloody political conflict in Syria. He held both jobs until 2011, the year of the “Arab Revolution,” when he was made deputy minister, replacing Saltanov at the job.
New Middle East Envoy of Russia appointed
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