The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton have failed to arrive at a consensus during their meeting in New York on the Syrian problem, reports the ITAR-TASS news agency with reference to sources in the US Administration.
Clinton feels the UN Security Council should adopt a tough stand on the Syrian problem; while Lavrov calls, for his part, for launching a dialogue between the Syrian leadership and the opposition.
But Russia has agreed to continue the discussion of the ways the Security Council could act on the issue in the future. The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is known for his critical comment on the Syrian authorities’ moves, yet the Russian leader has come out against a resolution that would condemn the Bashar Assad regime, to prevent the events in Syria from following the bloody Libyan scenario.