Putin meets with Palestinian President Abbas at the BRICS summit and calls for a quick end to the bloodshed in Gaza – Firstpost

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In their summit declaration, BRICS leaders called for the establishment of a sovereign, independent and permanent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas participated in the summit.
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On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the BRICS summit in Russia.

“We are definitely in favor of a quick end to the bloodshed (in Gaza),” Putin told Abbas in televised comments during the two sides’ second meeting since August.

The BRICS summit, attended by more than 20 leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, demonstrated the depth of Russia’s relationships beyond the Western world.

Earlier today, Putin said that if Palestinians do not achieve their state, they will feel the brunt of “historical injustice” and the region will remain in “an atmosphere of permanent crisis with inevitable recurrences of large-scale violence.”

In their summit declaration, BRICS leaders called for the establishment of a sovereign, independent and permanent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas participated in the summit.

With agency input.