MOSCOW. March 11 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns discussed the Syrian conflict on the sides of the 5th Friends of Yemen ministerial meeting in London on Thursday.
"The Russian-American keen dialogue on the whole range of Syria-linked issues continued at the meeting. The sides also reaffirmed their mutual commitment to the Action Group for Syria final communique adopted in Geneva on June 30, 2012, which highlights the need to immediately stop the bloodshed in Syria and launch a transitional political process aimed at establishing national dialogue inside Syria," the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website on Friday.
The Russian diplomat also met with UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman in London to discuss the situation in the Middle East "with a focus on the need to settle the Syrian crisis by political methods as soon as possible and prevent it from having a destructive impact on the situation in the region as a whole, as well as the task of unblocking the Palestinian-Israeli negotiating process with the help of the Quartet of international mediators - Russia, the U.S., the European Union and the UN," the ministry said.