Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hopes that normalization of relations with Turkey will help reduce the number of existing disagreements on Syria.
"Normalization of relations with Turkey will have a positive effect on the situation in the region in general, and I hope will help us to search more effectively for common approaches for overcoming the Syrian crisis, on which the positions of Russia and Turkey are far from coinciding," Lavrov said at the meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku.
"However, my honest conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Sochi allows to hope that there will now be less disagreements with our Turkish partners, and we will try to negotiate more openly on implementing the decisions of UN Security Council) and the International Syria Support Group," TASS cited him as saying.
"We are concerned that the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has been shying away from his duties recently, not calling another round of intra-Syrian talks, and starting to make public statements on the need for Russia and the United States to agree on how to proceed with the political settlement in Syria, and then the UN will convene a new round of intra-Syrian talks," the minister underlined.
