Beirut:Prime Minister Dr. Nawaf Salam welcomed a Russian delegation on Friday, which included several high-ranking church officials and the Russian Ambassador to Lebanon.
According to National news agency - Lebanon, the delegation featured Sergei Stepashin, Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society; Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; and Metropolitan Niphon Saikali, the Representative of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East at the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia.
Alexander Rudakov, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Lebanon, was also present during the meeting.
