Lavrov-Kerry Meeting Focused on Syrian Settlement

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Meeting beetween Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry was completely devoted to the Syrian settlement in the context of the declaration recently adopted by the International Syria Support Group in Munich, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Meeting of Russian top diplomat Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry was devoted to the process of the Syrian crisis settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday.

Earlier in the day, Lavrov and Kerry met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. Following the talks, Kerry told reporters that the meeting went "excellent."

"[The meeting] was completely devoted to the Syrian settlement in the context of the declaration recently adopted by the International Syria Support Group in Munich. It was about concrete ways of implementing all provisions of the communique," Zakharova said.

She added that the meeting was held at the initiative of the US side.

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The ISSG meeting on Thursday resulted in the adoption of a final communique that called for humanitarian access to be provided swiftly to all besieged areas in Syria and set a one-week deadline for measures to be implemented to end the hostilities in the country.

The ISSG was formed in November shortly after the beginning of the Syria peace talks in Vienna as an international format aiming to resolve the internal crisis in Syria, where a civil war has been ongoing since 2011, with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad fighting against several opposition factions and extremists.

The format currently involves Russia, the Arab League countries, the European Union and some of its member states, as well as China, Iran, Turkey, the United Nations and the United States.

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