Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:23:51
US Secretary of State John Kerry has opened talks in Moscow with Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to try to narrow broad gaps on ways to end Syria civil war and restore stability in eastern Ukraine.
Kerry was meeting his counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday before seeing Russian President Vladimir Putin in what are expected to be difficult discussions over the ways ahead in each crisis.
"The main issue for today is the agreement of lists of terrorist organizations and the possibility of moving on to implementing what was agreed on during the Vienna talks by the group under our insistence that includes not only the US-led coalition members, but also a number of other influential countries, Ryabkov told journalists."
Russia and the US are at odds over the mechanics of a political transition aimed at halting the war in Syria as well as the military approach to fighting the ISIS terrorist group.
International negotiators have been planning to meet to discuss the Syrian peace process in New York on December 18.
On Ukraine, the two countries are split over the implementation of a February agreement meant to end hostilities between the Kiev government and separatists in the east.
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