US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Kofi Annan, special envoy of the UN, discussed a power transition in Syria, spokeswoman of the State Department Victoria Nuland said, RIA Novosti reports.
US advisor for Syria Fred Hof is in Moscow to keep up contacts with Russia. He met experts and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
Niland urged the media to avoid thinking that Russia and China support the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad and violence against the population there. Iran supports al-Assad.
The UN monitoring mission met in El Kubeir not far from Hama, ITAR-TASS reports.
Norway's General Robert Mood, head of the monitoring mission, said that they had not been allowed to visit El Kubeir. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that some observers were shot at on Wednesday.
About 78 people were killed in a single Syrian village on Wednesday.
