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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to address the conflict in Syria.
Netanyahu said he had spoken with Putin and the two agreed "to meet soon in order to continue the important inter-military security coordination".
He did not specify a date for their meeting.
Speaking at the start of a cabinet session, Netanyahu again pledged to stop "Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria and to thwart the transfer of lethal weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon".
The meeting will be the first between them since the accidental downing of a Russian plane led to tensions.
The plane was downed by Syrian air defenses, which fired in response to an Israeli raid in the country.
Putin and Netanyahu have spoken at least three times by phone since the September 17 incident.
Fifteen Russians were killed in the downing that Moscow blamed on Israel, accusing its pilots of using the larger Russian plane as cover.
Israel disputes the Russian findings and says its jets were back in Israeli airspace when the plane was downed.
Source: Asharq Alawsat