BERLIN (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov discussed the civil war in Syria and other matters in their first meeting in Berlin.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the two met for an hour and 45 minutes, spending more than half that time on Syria in what she called a "really serious and hardworking session."
Kerry and Lavrov discussed how they could implement the so-called Geneva Agreement, which is designed to get the Syrian government and rebels to plan a transitional government for the time after President Bashar Assad leaves office.