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Russia, U.S. military experts to meet over Syria: media

Xinhua, October 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Russian and U.S. military experts will meet in Geneva Wednesday to discuss the separation of Syrian opposition from terrorist groups, the Interfax news agency on Tuesday cited Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.

"Indeed, an agreement was reached in Lausanne that military experts would try to do it as far as eastern Aleppo is concerned. Such a meeting will start in Geneva tomorrow. Let's see what results it will have," Lavrov said.

On Saturday, Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in the Swiss city of Lausanne for discussions of restarting the political process in Syria. They were joined by the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Qatar.

The talks reportedly ended with no major breakthroughs in settling the five-year-long crisis in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that parties to the multilateral meeting reaffirmed their pledge to maintaining the integrity of the war-torn country, and promised to continue contacts.

Russia has repeatedly stressed the need to separate the so-called moderate opposition from the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham militants, also known as the Nusra Front, and other terrorist groups, a commitment that Moscow has blamed Washington for failing to fulfill. Endi