Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes that "Moscow will help create conditions for setting a full-fledged negotiations process" in Syria.
BEIJING, February 2 (Sputnik) – Moscow hopes that intra-Syrian consultations in Moscow will help create a full-fledged dialogue between the government and opposition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
"I would say we have some modest, but nonetheless hope that we will help create conditions for setting a full-fledged negotiations process, during which the Syrians themselves, as asserted in the Geneva communique, need to reach agreement in all aspects of life in their country," Lavrov said during a press conference in Beijing.
On Monday, during trilateral talks in the Chinese capital, the foreign ministers of Russia, India and China agreed that there can be no military solution to the Syrian crisis. The top diplomats urged all sides in the conflict to cease hostilities and resume the peace process.