Contents tagged with John Kerry

  • US Secretary of State to meet with Putin in Moscow

    US Secretary of State, John Kerry, will visit Moscow next week to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said this on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, Reuters reported.

    The purpose of his visit will be to discuss further settlements of the conflict in Syria. However, he stressed that the world has received the best opportunity to end the conflict in Syria with the withdrawal of the Russian Forces.

    In turn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia confirmed the possibility of the US Secretary …

  • Lavrov, Kerry discuss Syrian peace talks

    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have spoken over the phone about the upcoming UN-sponsored Syrian peace talks in Geneva. The talks will be the largest effort yet to find a peaceful solution to the Syrian Civil War that has raged for almost 5 years.

    Kerry’s call to Lavrov comes three days after a face-to-face meeting between the two in Zurich, following which a joint statement was released saying "particular attention was given to the need to form a …

  • John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov meet in Zurich

    The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, and the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, met in the Swiss city of Zurich for the first bilateral negotiations of the year. The meeting was a prelude to the Syrian negotiations to be held in Geneva on January 25th.

    Earlier, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, said that Lavrov and Kerry would also discuss the situation in Ukraine and the implementation of the Minsk Agreements in eastern Ukraine. The issues regarding …

  • Kerry and Lavrov to Meet Next Week in Zurich

    The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, and the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, will meet on January 20th in Zurich to discuss the situations in Ukraine and Syria, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. This meeting was agreed upon during a telephone conference on January 14th.

    "According to the instructions of the Presidents of Russia and the U.S., while discussing current international issues yesterday, the Foreign Ministers continued to work towards the resolution …

  • John Kerry: No support to Assad in our Syrian operation

    US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has warned Putin of the Russian role in Syria and their support for Assad.

    President of Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin has negotiated a personal meeting with the government officials from US, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It looks like Putin is trying to secure support from these countries and he might be successful.

    On October 19th, John Kerry confirmed that the talks in Vein with the representatives of these countries will start shortly.

    In the …