As Russian and US diplomats prepare for a meeting with the international mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, Russian diplomats are calling for a balanced approach to settling the 21-month political crisis.
"The Russian side expects that the search for forms of international support for the settlement process of the acute domestic crisis in Syria…will take into account the ideas expressed in a speech by the President of the Syrian Arab Republic," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Syrian President Bashar Assad pledged in a televised speech on January 6 that he would halt military operations once fighting and foreign aid to the militant opposition stopped.
The Syrian leader also agreed to the release of 2,130 political prisoners in exchange for the release of 48 Iranians who had been held by Syrian rebels.
Russian and US officials, while supportive of ending the spiraling violence that has killed tens of thousands of Syrians, remain at odds over what part Assad should play in any negotiations.
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