The hope is that if the government and the rebels can agree a truce then they, Russian Federation and a US-led coalition of Western and Arab allies can focus their fire on IS.
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As the meeting with Mr Lavrov began, Mr Kerry said: “The world benefits when powerful nations can find common ground and I hope today we can find some common ground”.
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The United States and Moscow are are at odds over a political transition to halt the war in Syria, as well as the military approach to fighting the Islamic State.
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Mr Kerry will try to prepare the ground for an global meeting on Syria mooted for later this week. And on Ukraine, Lavrov said the US should use its influence with the government in Kiev to settle the conflict with the separatists by respecting a shaky cease-fire and moving ahead with political reforms in eastern Ukraine.
The outcome of the Lavrov-Kerry talks is hard to predict, Ryabkov said.
A statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry aired some of those grievances, saying that Moscow “will continue to seek a revision of the USA administration policy based on dividing terrorists into a “bad” and “good” ones” and complaining that the USA was unwilling to engage in “full-fledged coordination” between the two powers’ militaries while both are conducting airstrikes in Syria.
Kerry praised Moscow for having been “a significant contributor to the progress that we have been able to make” on Syria and said the USA and Russian Federation both believe the Islamic State group must be eliminated.
Kerry is also meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
The run up to the Moscow talks underlined the space between Moscow and Washington on how to deal with the Syria disaster.
There are some doubts whether it will go ahead but the U.S. state department denied claims from Russian Federation “preconditions” would have to be met for the meeting to take place.
Yet, much as United States policymakers would like Putin to be a pariah, the Russian president has instead become a “sought-after essential partner, including for a lot of American allies”, according to Jatras.
Russia, which has dispatched air and naval forces to Syria to shore up Assad’s regime, has agreed to help Washington pursue the peace plan. Moscow says it is for Syrian voters to tell him when to go.
Russia, the US, European and Middle Eastern countries agreed in Vienna last month on a two-year timeline leading to Syrian elections, but left many questions unresolved, most notably the fate of Assad.
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Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Syrian opposition groups, however, demand that Assad leave at the start of the process.
