The corresponding order was posted on the official Internet portal of legal information.

“To appoint Georgy Levonovich Asatryan as the trade representative of the Russian Federation in the Syrian Arab Republic,” the message says.

Earlier, the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Sytnik, said that the militants of the Jabhat al-Nusra * terrorist group carried out 38 attacks in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the SAR.

“Jabhat al-Nusra” (“Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”, “Jabhat Fath al-Sham”, “Front al-Nusra”) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.