UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope that the meeting of the presidents of Russia and Syria, Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad, held on Tuesday, will allow a settlement of the conflict in the Middle Eastern country to be brought closer.
"I have repeatedly said that (in the conflict in Syria) there is no military solution, it must be political," gazeta.ru quoted him as saying.
Ban Ki-moon hopes that "thanks to the meeting with President Putin, President Assad will realize this." "I hope that this leads to a change of dynamics," the UN Secretary General added.
