Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry met on the sidelines of a Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss preparations for the Geneva-2 international conference on Syria and the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told reporters.
“The sides exchanged opinions on international issues and lauded progress at the talks with Iran resulting in concrete and mutually acceptable agreements in the interests of nonproliferation and global security,” the source said, according to Voice of Russia, TASS.
Lavrov and Kerry discussed the situation around Syria, including Geneva-2 preparations and the course of Syria’s chemical disarmament.
A number of “burning aspects of bilateral relations” were also touched upon, the source said.
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