Jubeir received at his office in Jeddah on Sunday Russia's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mikhail Bogdanov, who is also the special envoy of Russian President for the Middle East and African countries. During the meeting, a number of issues of mutual concern to the two countries were discussed. The meeting was attended on the Russian side by Dmitri Dogadkin, head of Middle East department at the Foreign Ministry; Riyadh Maxim Khorchov, charge d'affaires in Riyadh, and Bahauddin Olleaq, consul general in Jeddah. On the Saudi side, the meeting was attended by Ali Al-Hamdan, director of Arab department at the Foreign Ministry and Khalid Al-Anqari, director general of the minister's office.
