“Russia has been a significant contributor to the progress” the world has made on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday in Moscow.
U.S. officials have repeatedly criticized Russia’s intervention in Syria as “counterproductive” — designed more to bolster President Bashar Assad than to degrade the Islamic State. But the tone of U.S. statements changed after President Barack Obama’s meeting in November with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when the two world leaders agreed on a broad diplomatic approach to ending Syria’s bloody civil war.
Kerry, ahead of their Moscow meeting, thanked his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and said, “I agree completely …read more
Source: European Voice
