GENEVA (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, following a meeting with Erdogan, Putin said that Russia and Turkey are determined to find a mutually-acceptable solution to the conflict in Syria.
"We have been always looking forward to all members of the ISSG [International Syrian Support Group] to have a cooperative attitude among them in order to reach a formula that can be implemented in Syria. So seeing the Turkish president and the Russian president talking about Syria and apparently coming up with some type of coordination on agreement is certainly something that we are looking with a great interest at," de Mistura told reporters.
"We need a target timing, and the target timing is still towards the end of August," de Mistura told reporters, adding that "while it is a target date, there is and there should be no preconditions."
It is vital as those who do not want the intra-Syrian talks to happen may use any possible preconditions to obstruct the holding of the talks, he emphasized.
