MOSCOW. June 29 (Interfax) - Moscow calls for the soonest beginning of political dialogue on Syria with the purpose of preventing the spread of the terrorist threat in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
"Today, when the terrorist threat is imminent and it is spreading far outside of its borders, there should be no more excuses for stalling political processes [in Syria]," he said at a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in Moscow.