US Secretary of State John Kerry today said he hopes to visit Russia within the next week for talks on the crisis in Syria and Ukraine.
Kerry said in Paris that he is planning to visit Moscow "in a week" to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the two matters.
If he makes the trip, it will come ahead of a planned international diplomatic meeting on Syria at the United Nations on December 18, at which the UN Security Council expects to adopt a resolution in support of peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition.
It would be Kerry's second visit to Russia this year and second since Moscow's intervention in Ukraine. He travelled to Sochi in May to see Putin and Lavrov.
