Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated his calls for Palestinian statehood in a meeting with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. “We believe that in order to ensure lasting, reliable and stable peace in the region, it’s necessary to… create a full-fledged Palestinian state,” Putin told Abbas at the presidential residence outside Moscow. He also expressed “great pain and concern” about civilian deaths in Gaza during the Israel-Gaza war. “We are concerned above all about civilian losses,” Putin said, according to images shown on Russian state television, addin…