Laos: Lavrov calls for new round of negotiations on Syria

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that it was time to start “the political stage of the settlement of the Syrian crisis.” He was speaking in Vietane on the last day of the ministerial summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, (Russian): “Regarding today’s meeting of representatives from Russia, the US and UN in Geneva, it is dedicated to the necessity of beginning the political stage of the settlement of the Syrian cri