Kremlin Regrets Russia, US Still Far From Real Cooperation on Syria

Moscow and Washington are still far from real cooperation in Syria, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia would like to see greater effort from the United States for greater cooperation with Moscow on Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

"To our regret, we are still far from real cooperation," Peskov told reporters, answering a question on whether the Kremlin was satisfied with Russian-US interaction on Syria.

Russia and Syria have agreed on specific steps that must be taken to settle the situation in Syria and will continue to work with the groups they can influence to reach lasting ceasefire in the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday following 12-hour talks with the US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva.

Lavrov said that Russia-US coordination on targets in Syria has not yet been smoothed out, but expressed hope that upcoming expert consultations would help resolve the issue.

"Here we would still like to see greater willingness toward real cooperation, to roll-out our cooperation not on the level of exchange of information or sporadic interaction, but on full cooperation without which it is impossible to settle the hardest Syrian issue," the spokesman pointed out.