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Kerry Heading to Moscow for Talks on Syria
Local Editor
US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to head to Moscow Tuesday on a delicate diplomatic mission to in an attempt to keep "the fragile Syrian peace process on track."
Although the US State Department said Kerry would meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin did not confirm this yet.
US spokesman Mark Toner said Friday on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in Paris: "They will discuss ongoing efforts to achieve a political transition in Syria."
For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a decision about whether Putin would meet
Kerry could wait until after his talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"Kerry is coming here on the invitation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His partner in the talks will be Russia's foreign minister," Peskov explained.
However, he further stated that: "We do not exclude the possibility of such a meeting when Minister Lavrov and Kerry inform President Putin about their talks."
The Russian foreign ministry said it hoped the visit would improve what it described as"complicated" relations between the rival countries.
The talks will also cover differences in the parallel Russian and US approaches to the fight against "ISIS" in Syria.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov meanwhile said he saw "prospects" for progress in the development of a transition plan, after meeting with representatives of the US and UN in Geneva Friday.
The meeting "notably underlined the need to fix the most important problem of the day, establishing a list of the opposition, the most representative possible, to participate in dialogue with the government, and a list of terrorist organizations that are not respecting the ceasefire," Gatilov added.
"Further progress of the process will depend on the speed with which these lists are compiled."
Separately, Russia made it clear that it regards many of the armed groups brought together under the Saudi initiative as "terrorists."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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