Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday met with the members of the Russian delegation who arrived in Syria to take part in a meeting between the two countries’ coordination headquarters on the return of refugees.

Axar.az reports that the meeting was attended by Russian presidential envoy for the Syrian settlement Alexander Lavrentyev, chief of the Russian coordination headquarters on the return of Syrian refugees and chief of Russia’s National Defense Control Center Mikhail Mizintsev, and Russian Ambassador to Syria Alexander Yefimov.

The sides discussed various aspects of the return of Syrian refugees to their homes and the restoration of peaceful life in Syria.