US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Russia on Monday for "enabling" Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to stay in power in the war-torn country, after Geneva peace talks broke off without result at the weekend.
Russian-Egyptian talks on regional and international issues are becoming particularly important, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, opening a meeting with visiting Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy here on Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet his (Persian) Gulf Arab counterparts on February 18 for talks expected to focus on the Syria conflict, a Kuwaiti official has said.
Russia will block a draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Syria proposed by the West to the UN Security Council if it is put on vote in the current edition, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said.
Russia is prepared to consider a new resolution on Syria by the U.N. Security Council, if it meets principles of international humanitarian law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with Algerian counterpart Ramtan Lamamra here on Tuesday.
Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation.
Russian main arms exporting company Rosoboronexport has delivered weapons and military hardware at a record 13.2 billion dollars in the previous year, Rosoboronexport Director
General Anatoly Isaikin said in an interview published in Kommersant daily on Monday
The violent stand-off in Ukraine dominates an EU-Russia summit Tuesday, with mutual trust in short supply and few expecting any progress on how to reconcile sharply conflicting views of Europe's future.
The United States is ready to assist Russia if necessary to ensure security at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday.
Russia believes that emergence of new military world powers is unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference reviewing the results of 2013 here on
Tuesday.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will visit Russia ahead of the Geneva 2 peace talks on the crisis due to begin in Switzerland later this month, Damascus's ambassador to Moscow said Monday.
Members of the U.N. Security Council failed to coordinate a draft statement on the
situation in Syria for the second time this month, a diplomatic source told Itar-Tass.