MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that next month's Moscow talks with Hamas leaders were aimed at bringing the militant Palestinian group into the Mideast peace process.
"We are counting on all this to foster progress toward a situation in which Hamas will be a legitimate, integral and useful part of the peace process in the Middle East," Lavrov told reporters.
He stressed that Russian officials in the talks would negotiate in accordance with the agreed position of the so-called quartet of Mideast peace mediators: Russia, the United States, the United Nations and the European Union.
"We will be guided by the agreed position of the quartet," Lavrov said. "We will continue the work that the leadership of many Middle East regional countries have conducted with the Hamas leadership."
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