"In general, it would be useful to give our joint humanitarian efforts a systematic character in order to help raise Syria from the ruins, restore its industry, agriculture, infrastructure, thereby ensuring a mass return of the Syrians home," Putin said.
Earlier, the FAN reported that the second group of refugees arrived in the area of the Syrian checkpoint from Lebanon. More than 490 citizens arrived in the territory of the SAR in a day.
On September 5, the head of the National Center for the Defense of Russia, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that a "historic event" would take place in Syria - an international conference on refugees.