Kerry and Lavrov met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou.
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“The ceasefire has been observed in most provinces of the Syrian Arab Republic”.
A senior State Department Official said differences between the two countries on the issue remain.
The dire situation facing the remaining population of Aleppo in northern Syria will not be helped by the United States and Russian Federation anytime soon following the collapse of talks on Sunday.
USA officials have said that as part of a deal, Russian Federation would have to halt offensives by Assad’s government, something it has failed to do over months of diplomatic efforts.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that negotiations have stalled between the United States and Russia to stop fighting in Syria between Russian-backed government troops and USA -supported rebels.
On Sunday, regime forces helped by the Russian air jets launched intense aerial and artillery attacks and succeeded to drive insurgents out of the Ramousah military complex in Aleppo.
Kerry declined to say what specific issues are holding up the deal. The two sides now need to consult internally, they said. Monday’s meeting was the second time in two weeks Lavrov and Kerry had failed to broker a truce deal between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and opposition rebels.
Beirut-The level of optimism surrounding a U.S. NATO Turkey ally on Sunday said rebels it was backing had gained control of all areas on its border that had been held by the jihadists, depriving the ultra-hardline Islamist group of its main route to the outside world.
The American defense official admitted that “we would have to sell this to the opposition”.
Syria’s crisis has become more urgent because even as U.S. -Russia talks continue the country is becoming more militarized, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations Envoy for Syria, said on September 1.in Geneva.
“It’s clear now what our respective positions are”, the official said. In a shot at Russian operations in Syria, Cook noted that Moscow’s aircraft rarely target Islamic State objectives, instead spending “much of its time supporting the Assad regime”. The official spoke anonymously to discuss a private conversation.
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In response, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted a rebuttal on its Facebook account Friday, saying “it is not a surprise that the Pentagon has no information” on the Russian strike, and calling Russian claims a joke “is the sole thing they can say to justify their unawareness”.
