WASHINGTON: A frustrated US Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back to Moscow once again to meet President Vladimir Putin and test his commitment to the stalled Syrian peace process.
Russia and the United States are nominally co-chairs of international efforts to bring Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the negotiating table with armed opposition groups.
But ferocious bloodshed continues in defiance of a series of failed ceasefires, and the odd couple heading the peace effort appear increasingly at odds over the way forward.
Kerry told diners at a delayed Eid al-Fitr supper Tuesday that he would meet Putin “to see if we can somehow advance this in the important ways that people want us to.”
