Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that countries will hold "enlarged" talks on the Syrian conflict soon, before accusing some of trying to evade negotiations.
"There will be another meeting in the nearest future in an enlarged format... that is about 20 countries and organizations," he said from a press conference in Armenia.
"A whole range of our partners are still trying to evade concrete work, the talks, and to limit the issue to abstract calls on the necessity of President
Assad's departure," Lavrov said, calling it an approach that distracts from work that brings results.