MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. A visit to Russia by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is in the works, Palestinian Ambassador in Moscow Abdel Hafiz Nofal told TASS on Tuesday.

"Of course. President Abbas and [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin spoke by telephone two weeks ago, discussing many issues," the diplomat said in reply to a question.

Abbas’s most recent visit to Russia was in November 2021. In October of 2022, Putin and Abbas met in Astana on the sidelines of a summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.