USA en Rusland eens over vredesbesprekingen Syrië

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday they believed they could pull off peace talks on Syria, where their nations back opposing sides in a war that may have cost 120,000 lives. Differences between Russia, a main ally of President Bashar al-Assad, and the United States, which supports those trying to topple him, have long obstructed United Nations action on the turmoil convulsing Syria for more than two years

But last week Kerry and Lavrov announced plans to hold a peace conference now expected to take place in Geneva in June. "Both of us are...very, very hopeful that within a short period of time, pieces will come together so that the world, hopefully, will be given an alternative to the violence and destruction that is taking place in Syria at this moment," Kerry told a news conference after meeting Lavrov in Kiruna, Sweden.