Walid WallyJumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
on Wednesday left for the Russian capital Moscow aboard a private plane, state-run National News Agency reported.
The agency did not elaborate any further.
But MTV reported later on Wednesday that the Druze leader had been invited to Moscow by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on "the Syrian crisis."
Jumblat has called on Syria's key ally Russia to "launch a political initiative together with the countries concerned in order to pull Syria out of its crisis."
In his weekly column in his party's al-Anbaa newspaper published Tuesday, Jumblat also urged Iran to "launch some kind of initiative towards the Syrian people who stood by the Iranian revolution against the Shah regime and in the face of the Saddamist attack in the eighties."
"There's no doubt that Syria may descend into a devastative civil war if the bloodshed continues," Jumblat warned.