MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States continues working with Russia to re-launch the cessation of hostilities in Syria and get political reconciliation underway, US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft said Monday.
"We are working together trying to find a way to get the cessation of hostilities in Syria back on track and to get the process of political accommodation, political reconciliation going again," Tefft told RIA Novosti.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is on the phone regularly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to revive the ceasefire and start negotiations, the US diplomat stressed, saying "we are trying to do everything we can to support that process."
The diplomat also reiterated US President Barack Obama’s intent to see the complete fulfillment of the Minsk agreements on Ukrainian reconciliation before he leaves office at the start of next year.
