Lavrov and Kerry discussed the increase in interaction in Syria

The heads of the foreign policy departments of Russia and the United States held a telephone conversation on Sunday, discussing the need to build up Russian-American interaction to strengthen a truce in Syria. Also, Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to contribute to the normalization of the situation around the Nagorno -Karabakh, Interfax reports.

The conversation took place on the initiative of the American side, emphasized in the Foreign Ministry . "When considering a situation in Syria, the Minister and Secretary of State accentuated the need to further build up Russian -American interaction to strengthen the ceasefire there," the report said. Diplomats "emphasized the adherence to the increase in efforts but the fight against ISIS (Islamic state, also Daish , the group is prohibited in the Russian Federation)," Jebhat al-Nusra "(grouping is prohibited in the Russian Federation) and related terrorist organizations, as well as agreed to take additional measures to suppress their fed as fighters and weapons."

Also, Lavrov and Kerry "expressed support to the efforts of the specialized secrecy of the Secretary General of the UN Staffan de Mistura to convene in Geneva the next round of negotiations between the Syrian government and its opponents." In this regard, the Foreign Ministry focused on the need to ensure "full participation in the negotiation process of representatives of the Kurdish population of the country."

Speaking about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the US Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State "welcomed the agreement on the ceasefire in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and agreed to contribute to the normalization of the situation in the region."