Russia prepares for Geneva III

5.4.2014 – MESOP / JOURNAL OF TURKISH WEEKLY – Russia’s arguments in favor of the advisability of resuming these negotiations in Geneva as soon as possible have been generally met with understanding during numerous contacts on the Syrian problem that have taken place recently between Russian diplomats and foreign officials, including UN-Arab League peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, Lukashevich said.

As for any concrete timeframe for launching the third round of this negotiating process, “the information available to us, as the co-authors of the Syria international conference initiative, suggests that no such dates have been determined so far, although work is now underway on these issues,” he said. “A new meeting in the trilateral Russia-US-UN format may become an important element of this work,” Lukashevich said.