Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticises a decision by several countries to suspend their funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), describing it as a form of "collective punishment". The comments come at a meeting with Lavrov's Gambian counterpart Mamadou Tangara in Moscow, who calls for "meaningful dialogue" with the military regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger following their decision to withdraw from the West African bloc ECOWAS. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES