U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L)
sits with U.N. Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi (C) and Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as they each make a statement to the
press after a meeting discussing the ongoing problems in Syria.
(Reuters)
Reuters, Geneva/Beirut
Russia and the United States agreed on Friday to push again for an
international conference aimed at ending Syria’s civil war as talks on
removing chemical weapons raised hopes for broader negotiations.
After a further meeting Geneva to discuss Moscow’s plan for securing
poison gas stocks in order to avert U.S. air strikes, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said they
would work together to end a conflict that has divided the Middle East
and the world’s major powers.
They would meet again in about two weeks, around Sept. 28 during the
United Nations General Assembly in New York, and hoped progress in
Geneva in the coming day on a chemical weapons disarmament deal would
help set a date for a peace conference.
“We are committed to trying to work together, beginning with this
initiative on the chemical weapons, in hopes that those efforts could
pay off and bring peace and stability to a war-torn part of the world,”
Kerry told a joint news briefing.
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