The meeting of the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry will take place in Rome on the first day of the week, said the U.S. state Department.

" Secretary of state Kerry will meet with Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in Rome on the first day of the week to discuss the situation in the middle East, and among them the development of the situation in Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan river), Jerusalem and the region, as well as new initiatives of the United Nations ", - informs the Ministry.

in the agenda the discussion of the Ukrainian and Syrian issues, according to a dispatch from the official envoy of the US state Department Marie Harf.

before the media reported that the next Meeting of Lavrov and Kerry can take place in Rome on Sunday, December 14.

on the first day of the week, the U.S. Department of state said about the fact that Kerry and Lavrov discussed on the phone the situation in the middle East. According to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the parties spoke about the need for coordinated measures for the speedy resumption of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.

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