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US, Russia can effectively co-op, says Kerry
The talks between Russian Foreign Minister and US State Secretary John Kerry have started in Moscow.
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He is due to have meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov on Monday.
“Russia and the United States agree that this is a threat to everybody, to every country”, he said. The United States, its allies and most opposition groups insist that Assad must leave power for the fighting to end.
Kerry and the United Nations envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, want to hold the next round of Syrian peace talks on Friday in NY, but Moscow has so far refused to confirm the date.
However, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said there were no preconditions to having this meeting.
Russian Federation had played an important part in the successful talks to resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme and had made a significant contribution in Syria too, Mr Kerry said.
Kerry’s visit follows a meeting last week in Riyadh which agreed to unite a number of opposition groups, not including Islamic State, to negotiate with Damascus in peace talks.
Assad’s future and his potential role in the political transition will be prime topics of Kerry’s conversation at today’s talks in Moscow.
“We will talk about some of the details of a transition…in the hopes of narrowing the differences between us”, a senior State Department official told reporters.
He also criticized Russia’s military intervention in Syria, saying it was aimed at propping up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, not combating Islamic State.
The new incident involving Russian warships came after the Defence Ministry said a Russian destroyer in the Aegean Sea on Sunday opened fire to avoid a collision with a Turkish fishing boat, with Moscow summoning the Turkish military attache over the incident.
Russian Federation is under global sanctions over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that has killed more than 5,000 people since April past year.
Russian Federation has been carrying out air strikes targeting ISIS positions in Syria, but the USA accuses Russian Federation of bombing moderate rebels.
Even for Kerry, who routinely keeps forging ahead even when his much younger staff is ready to drop, the pace of recent days was at times bewildering.
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“Issues of strengthening strategic stability will be discussed”.