WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Lavrov and Kerry had bilateral meeting in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday.
"They discussed ongoing multilateral efforts to achieve a cessation of hostilities in Aleppo, as well as the delivery of humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of Syrian civilians in desperate need there," the release explained.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Lavrov and Kerry were continuing cooperation on Syrian settlement at the expert level, but no new information on the settlement proposals was available.
Lavrov said the following day that Moscow was ready to send experts to Geneva as soon as possible to agree with US colleagues on the militants withdrawal, joint actions and non-interrupted humanitarian deliveries.
On Tuesday, the United States notified Russia that consultations on Aleppo could not begin as Washington withdrew its current settlement proposals, which it issued after the meeting in Rome.
