Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov looks on as he attends a meeting of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Ufa, Russia, July 10, 2015. REUTERS/Ivan Sekretarev/Pool
GAZA (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Qatar on Monday and invited him to visit Moscow, a Hamas official said, extending a diplomatic welcome to the Palestinian group shunned by the West.
Meshaal, who is based in Doha, last travelled to Moscow in 2010, four years after his first official visit to the Russian capital.
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