Russian, U.S. top diplomats discuss ties by phone

MOSCOW, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed bilateral relations in a phone conversation Wednesday, the Russia Foreign Ministry said.

"They exchanged views on several aspects of the joint agenda, including bilateral relations, and efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis and overcome the conflict in Ukraine based on the Minsk agreements of February 12, 2015," the ministry said in a press release.

They agreed on the need to work to fulfill the task, set in a telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, of overcoming existing differences through professional dialogue in the interests of normalizing the atmosphere of Russian-U.S. interaction, it said.

It is the first phone call of Pompeo as U.S. Secretary of State with Lavrov. Enditem