Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov failed to reach a deal with Germany on the necessity that Berlin doesn’t take part in a possible Western military operation in Syria.
After meeting his German counterpart Heiko Maas on Friday, different points of view on Syria seemed clear, especially regarding the possibility of a military operation by the regime against Idlib.
This comes as Russian media said it is more likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin would attempt to convince his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of a limited and accurate military operation, during the meeting on Monday in Sochi.
“We always stick to the International humanitarian law when we conduct operations involving military action. We along with our Turkish partners are vigorously working on solving the situation in Idlib in a full accordance with the arrangements which were made during the process of creating the de-escalation zone over there,” said Lavrov.
"It is in our interest for Syria to be a stable country. For that, reconstruction is necessary. And we have an important role in that," Maas said.
"I will impress upon my colleague Lavrov our expectations that there should be no major offensive in Idlib," Maas added.
Further, Russian media reported that Putin opts to persuade Erdogan that in case a political solution failed then there won’t be an alternative to launching a military operation. The source added that Moscow doesn’t mind to grant Ankara an additional time to fulfill its commitments in the file of separating moderate opposition from extremists.
