Russia aims to help lift Palestinian aid blockade

Russia will work for international support of the Palestinian Authority power-sharing arrangement and for the lifting of the crippling international aid blockade, the foreign minister said today.

Russia favours the agreement between Hamas and the Fatah group to share power because it shows “wisdom, reason and responsibility before the Palestinian people,” Sergey Lavrov said at the start of his talks with Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal.