State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said that the talks which US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold on Tuesday in Sochi may be the first step towards a peaceful settlement of the situation.
"Secretary Kerry and the team have long been thinking through ways to get back to a diplomatic process. So that’s going to be one of the main topics of conversation in Sochi," she said at a briefing in Washington.
"The US Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have talked about Syria for many months. We have worked together in terms of setting up the first two Geneva conferences. We worked together on the chemical weapons agreement," RIA Novosti cited Harf.
"I wouldn't expect any concrete sort of announcements or anything to be made out of this meeting. This is just the first step in a process here to sit down with the Russians, to talk about how we might eventually all get back to the table," the representative of the State Department summed up.
