Russian Foreign Ministry building. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 19Moscow is ready for contacts with the United States on Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Monday. such contacts,» Bogdanov told reporters. He recalled that the United States is invited as observers to meetings of the Astana format. «But they have been abstaining lately,» Bogdanov added. 
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