| This lame duck tour is at least keeping soon to be former Secretary of State John Kerry out from underfoot during the transition. |
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
continued discussing the problems plaguing the Syrian Conflict, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday.
"Following Thursday’s talks on the sidelines of the APEC forum in Lima, Peru, the two top diplomats continued the discussion of the Syrian settlement problems with a focus on the situation around Eastern Aleppo," the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the telephone conversation was initiated by the US side.
The situation in Syria was in focus of Lavrov’s meeting with Kerry in Lima.
"These contacts produce results, but everything is stalled by the same problem that once prevented the Americans from fulfilling our bilateral agreements - (the problem of) separating the so-called moderate opposition from al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
," Russia’s top diplomat said.
"There is mounting evidence, and we cannot escape this impression that the dominating decision is to preserve al-Nusra as the strongest force that opposes (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, regardless of the fact that it was put on all terrorist lists in the United States, Russia and the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
," Lavrov said.
"At the same time, we would try to find some solutions to this situation. It appears to me that John Kerry is truly interested in it," the minister added.