‘No progress’ as Kerry, Lavrov meet on Syria truce

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov failed to make progress on a Syria truce in talks in Germany early Thursday, an American official says.

The official says that, “no progress, no conclusion were reached on Aleppo,” in two 10-minute meetings between Kerry and Lavrov on the sidelines of a gathering of foreign ministers from the 57-member Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in the northern German city of Hamburg.

But Kerry tells Russian journalists that he remains hopeful and will continue to work for a solution.

Syrian residents of the newly retaken eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo walk through the Bab al-Hadid district as they return home under supervision of the Syrian pro-government forces on December 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/GEORGE OURFALIAN)
Syrian residents of the newly retaken eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo walk through the Bab al-Hadid district as they return home under supervision of the Syrian pro-government forces on December 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/GEORGE OURFALIAN)

— AFP

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