Ildar Galeyev (head of the International Department of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation) met Mutasim Ahmad Al-Bashir, Consul of the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Moscow.
The parties discussed issues related to bilateral cooperation and the outcome of the recent meeting between Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin and new Jordanian Ambassador to Moscow Khaled Shawabkeh.
The head of the International Department took the opportunity to convey greetings from the religious leader of Muslims in Russia Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin to King Abdullah II and His Majesty's Ambassador to Moscow, Khaled Shawabkeh.
The parties expressed satisfaction with the development of bilateral contacts in the Islamic sphere and discussed items on the agenda, in particular the ratification by the Jordanian side of the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between the Religious Board of Muslims of Russia and the Fatwa Department of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The parties also discussed possible cooperation in the humanitarian sphere.
At the end of the meeting Ildar Galeyev presented the Consul of the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan a letter of acknowledgment for his contribution to the development of bilateral Russian-Jordanian relations in the Islamic sphere.