Geneva to Host Trilateral Syria Talks on Friday
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Russia said Moscow, Washington and the United Nations will hold Syria talks in Geneva on Friday as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are ratcheted up.
Russian Deputy FM Gennady Gatilov said: "We will be having consultations in the trilateral format: Russia, the US and the UN."
He further added that Russia would be calling for the "intensification of joint efforts in the fight against terrorism."
For his part, UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura is set to take part in the talks aimed at ending a brutal war that has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions since March 2011.
In a Wednesday call with his US counterpart John Kerry, FM Sergei Lavrov said they needed to draw up a list of "terrorist groups that we must not talk to and that we must fight together."
Kerry stated he would visit Moscow next week as Russia and the US work to forge a framework for a Syrian ceasefire and political transition.
Unsuccessfully so far, the Syrian opposition began a two-day closed-door meeting in Saudi Arabia to seek a united front.
This was the first time a broad range of Syrian political and armed opposition factions have come together since the conflict erupted.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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