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UN meeting on Syria political transition to go forward

MOSCOW (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart say that a group of foreign ministers will meet at the United Nations on Friday to discuss a political transition in war-ravaged Syria.

The two diplomats came out of a meeting at the Kremlin on Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin (POO’-tihn) that was designed to try to narrow gaps in the American and Russian approaches to the crisis in Syria.

The outcome of Tuesday’s meeting was that there was enough common ground for other foreign ministers to gather at the United Nations on Friday to begin to design a political transition.

Putin had opened the meeting by noting several “outstanding issues.”


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