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Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was in Moscow on August 19. In the course of the meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with the leader of this authoritative humanitarian organization matters relating to organization of work on the provision of aid to South Ossetian residents and refugees who have suffered from the armed attack of Georgia, on the search for missing persons, on the reunion of families and in other areas of humanitarian cooperation were discussed.