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Russia delivered another package of humanitarian aid to Syria and would withdraw more Russian nationals from the war-torn country, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.

"At 9:00 Moscow time (0500 GMT) an Il-76 aircraft took off from Ramenskoye airport near Moscow carrying 20 tons of humanitarian cargo," ministry spokeswoman Irina Rossius told reporters.

The plane was loaded mostly with canned foods and sugar, she added.

On its return trip the plane would pick up about 100 Russian nationals and 80 citizens of other Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS).

Russia regularly sends humanitarian aid to Syria and withdraws its citizens from Syria.

On May 29, two planes delivered 22 tones of cargo to Syria's harbour city of Latakia and evacuated 128 nationals of Russia and other CIS countries. In April, Russia delivered three batches of humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.

Also on Tuesday, Moscow said it was disappointed with the U.S. decision to cancel a bilateral meeting on Syria planned in the Hague.

"It is regrettable that the partners decided to cancel a bilateral Russia-U.S. meeting to discuss the convening of the international conference on Syria," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov wrote on his Twitter account.

He said it would be very useful to work out the parameters of political settlement in Syria in the present circumstances when the western countries threaten to intervene into that country.

Gatilov was to participate in that meeting along with the U.S. Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and Russian deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.

The U.S. State Department said Monday that the meeting will be rescheduled, noting it was imperative that Washington and Moscow reach "a comprehensive and durable political solution" to the crisis in Syria.