With truce in tatters, John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov discuss Syria
The two foreign ministers held a meeting after clashing at the United Nations, where Kerry demanded Russia force Syria to ground its air force
MOSCOW — In New York, Russia and the US discussed the Syrian conflict, hours after clashing over the issue at the United Nations, the Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday.US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov talked first by telephone "at the initiative of the Americans", the ministry said in a message on Facebook.The diplomats then met, accompanied by their delegations, "to continue discussing the problem of a settlement (of the conflict) in Syria".READ THIS: Kerry and Lavrov trade blame at emergency UN meetingRussia and the US negotiated the latest ceasefire plan, but Syria ended the truce on Monday following an apparently accidental US-led coalition strike on Syrian soldiers.Shortly after the truce ended, a UN aid convoy was hit, killing 20 humanitarian workers and destroying 18 trucks carrying food for desperate civilians in Aleppo province.On Wednesday, an angry Kerry demanded at a UN Security Council meeting that Russia force Syria to...
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