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Urgent: Moscow thinks it appropriate to invite new U.S. administration to intra-Syria talks in Astana, says FM

Xinhua, January 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

Moscow considered it appropriate to invite representatives of the new U.S. administration under Donald Trump to the upcoming intra-Syria talks in Kazakhstan's Astana, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday at his annual press conference.

He hoped that the administration would accept the invitation to attend the talks aimed to faciliate a political settlement of the Middle East country. Endi