US officials described the visit as a test of Moscow’s willingness to use its influence on the Syrian government to help revive the country’s peace process, and time was running out for that.
Kerry met President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday evening and both said before the meeting they hoped they could make progress on Syria. Kerry was also to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday.
Putin said his last conversation with US President Barack Obama had convinced him that both sides were sincere in the efforts to find a solution in Syria.
“I hope after today’s consultations you’ll be able to advise him of the progress made and possible headway for us to make,” he told Kerry, according to a pool reporter at the start of the talks.
Kerry said Obama thought his last call with Putin was “constructive.”
“Hopefully we’ll be able to make some genuine progress that is measurable and implementable and that can make a difference in the course of events in Syria,” Kerry said.
The extent of coordination with Russia proposed by Kerry and set out in a leaked US document published by the Washington Post would represent a major shift after years of rivalry between Washington and Moscow, who support opposing sides in Syria’s five-year civil war.
The document called for intelligence sharing to identify leadership targets, training camps, supply lines and headquarters of the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria....
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15/7/16
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