Lavrov appoints a special envoy for the Syrian settlement

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, head of the Middle East Department in the Foreign Ministry, appointed Alexander Kinshak as his special envoy for the Syrian settlement.

Lavrov appoints a special envoy for the Syrian settlement
8 October, 2020   13:48
 NEWS DESK

Kinshak (born in 1962) has held the position of Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry since late 2018, after returning to Moscow from Damascus where he was ambassador between 2014 and 2018.

Before that, he worked in the Russian embassy in Baghdad, and in 2008-2013 he was ambassador to Kuwait.

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