MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes that the interaction with the team of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Syria settlement will be more efficient than it was under the outgoing president, Barack Obama.
"Hopefully, interaction with the Donald Trump team on the Syria crisis will be more efficient than it has been with the Obama Administration," he told a press conference on Tuesday.
Lavrov also said that he expected the multilateral Syria settlement mechanisms created in the past would gain a new lease of life under the Trump Administration.
"Let us not forget that Russia and the United States have created and co-chaired the International Syria Support Group - no one has disbanded it, and it has two task groups - one addressing humanitarian affairs and the other controlling the cessation of hostilities," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
"It is quite possible to breathe new life into these mechanisms, given that the next U.S. Administration has pledged a real war on terrorism, unlike what was done before [under U.S. President Barack Obama]," Lavrov said.