First on CNN: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has turned down a Russian request to meet to discuss Syria, his office says, making it unclear if any U.S. lawmakers will sit down with a planned delegation from Moscow. This comes less than a day after House Speaker John Boehner rejected a similar request from the Russian government. A spokesman for the Russian embassy would not comment on the declined requests. "We are still working on the visit," Maxim Abramov said.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 23:32:08 +0000
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