Putin instructs Lavrov to intensify Russia’s participation in organization of peace process in Syria

MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to intensify Russia’s participation in organizing the peace process in Syria. "I ask the Russian Foreign Ministry to intensify Russia’s participation in organizing the peace process to solve the Syrian problem," Putin said at a meeting with Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. For his part, Lavrov told the president that the operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces had created the conditions for the political process in Syria. Russia’s top diplomat recalled that Russia had consistently advocated the establishment of the intra-Syrian dialogue. He noted that the intra-Syrian talks had resumed in Geneva earlier on Monday. "The work is not easy, it is yet to be understood how all these groups (taking part in the talks) could gather at the same table together," Lavrov said. "But the process has got underway, and it is in our common interests to make it sustainable and irreversible." Read more