A communiqué released following a BRICS consultative meeting on the Middle East

The website of the Russian Foreign Ministry has posted a joint communiqué following a consultative meeting of BRICS deputy foreign ministers on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa held in Moscow on 22 May 2015.

The participants expressed their concern about the internal political crises that had emerged in the past several years in a number of countries in the region, and called for their resolution under international law and exclusively by peaceful means.