US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Geneva
Moscow and Washington agreed to intensify contacts between the military of Russia and the United States on Syria, said Sergey Lavrov after 12 hours of talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry
The fact that Moscow and Washington have agreed to intensify bilateral contacts between the US and Russia on Syria’s military, announced Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at joint press conference Geneva with his US counterpart John Kerry after 12 hours of negotiations .
«We have agreed today to intensify bilateral contacts, that in the last few weeks, once sagged, frozen. I am referring to the contact between our representatives in Geneva, which until recently were, in fact, day to day, as well as contacts between the Russian base leadership in Hmeymime and representatives of the American command, which is located in Amman, Jordan, “- Lavrov said (quote according to “Interfax»).
according to the Russian minister, one of the problems in Syria is to establish in the country co-ordination between the Russian Federation and videoconferencing US-led coalition. However, so far, according to Lavrov, this is not.
«We are not talking about someone to stop flying. We are talking about making aviation, which operates in the Syrian sky, effectively fought with LIH, and “Dzhebhat en-Nusra” [both organizations recognized in Russia banned], “- said Lavrov
. “our task is not to have ceased to fly certain parties to the conflict, and to those who fly, terrorists bombed. While we coordinate on this issue has not been established with the American partners, the coalition that the US is headed, but that one of the tasks that we solve, since the Moscow meeting, “- he added
And Lavrov. Kerry stated that the talks in Geneva have made several important steps forward. “The fact that we do not distribute documents, does not mean that we do not find more points of contact”, – said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “I hope that we will be able to present to the international public the results of our joint efforts in the nearest future”, – he said,
Kerry, in turn, noted that the negotiations. added “clarity to move forward”, noting that the final breakthrough has not happened yet. “We have completed the vast majority of technical discussions”, which are a key step towards a broader cessation of hostilities, quoted Kerry Bloomberg. In the event that the final negotiations will be successful, “we will get the opportunity of a fundamental change in the trajectory of the conflict,” he added.
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