MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry held a telephone conversation on the situation in Syria and will meet October 23 in Vienna, Austria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
“The focus of attention was on the situation in Syria in regard to preparations for a meeting between Foreign Minister [Lavrov] and State Secretary [Kerry] slated for October 23 in Vienna where the heads of the foreign ministries of Saudi Arabia and Turkey are to join,” the Foreign Ministry said in a commentary.
The ministry said the telephone conversation took place earlier on Wednesday and was initiated by the US side.