Bogdanov: Geneva Tripartite Meeting ‘fruitful’

MOSCOW, (ST)_ The Geneva tripartite meeting convened Friday reiterated  support to the UN Envoy’s Mission to Syria, Akhdar Ibrahimi, declared the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.

Bogdanov, the special envoy of the Russian President to Middle East, stated to Russian RT following the tripartite meeting that the participants agreed on continued contacts and recognized the difficulty of the situation in Syria.

Bogdanov described the tripartite meeting along with the Ibrahimi and the  US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns as ‘fruitful’.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry stated in a statement that “The Russian side expects that the search for forms of international support for the settlement process of the acute domestic crisis in Syria…will take into account the ideas expressed in a speech by the President of the Syrian Arab Republic,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Ibrahimi pointed out that the tripartite meeting underlined necessity to stop blood letting and violence in Syria, asserting the need for peaceful settlement to the crisis on the basis of Geneva Statement of last June.

Ibrahimi added that there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria.

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