Moscow, October 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Israel, Jordan and the territories under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority October 26-27 in a move to assert Russia's stance against terrorism and religious extremism, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
"The impulse created during the disengagement of Israeli troops and settlements from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan River and the hopes that this impulse evoked must not fall flat," ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin.
It is also important, he said, to prevent issues of mutual distrust and violence and create the necessary conditions for pushing the road map to peace through.
Kamynin said Lavrov's visit would be a significant component of efforts that Russia, as a member of the quartet of international mediators (Russia, the United States, the EU and the UN), was making to facilitate peace in the Middle East.
