Syrian Delegation Coordinates With Russia Ahead of Peace Talks

Russia's envoy to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin told Sputnik on Friday that he had met with head of Syria's government delegation Bashar Jaafari to coordinate ahead of intra-Syrian talks.

GENEVA (Sputnik) — The talks between the Syrian government and the country's opposition are taking place on Friday evening.

"We coordinated before the talks start," Borodavkin said.

Jaafari arrived in Geneva earlier on Friday to meet UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura.

In December 2015, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on settling the Syrian conflict. The resolution reaffirmed the goals of the Vienna agreements to gather the entire spectrum of political groups in the crisis-torn country at the negotiating table and stated that the next round of the talks would take place in January, 2016.