MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged members of the Syrian opposition and representatives from Damascus at peace talks in Moscow Wednesday to join forces to combat the threat of "terrorism."
Expectations of a breakthrough in Moscow are low, but Russia hopes the talks will give some impetus to a long-stalled peace process in the four-year conflict.
"We believe that the understanding by politicians and leading representatives of civil society of the necessity to join forces to combat this common threat [of terrorism] should become the key for the resurrection of the unity of the Syrian nation," Lavrov told both sides of the talks.