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13:09, 18-Sep-2017
Tillerson meets Russia's Lavrov ahead of UN assembly
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed cooperation on the Syrian crisis, Middle East issues, and the agreement to bring peace to Ukraine in a meeting on Sunday, Lavrov's spokeswoman said.
The top US and Russian diplomats met in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Ties between Washington and Moscow are at what Tillerson has called a "historic" post-Cold War low, amid tit-for-tat cuts to each other's diplomatic missions.
But Washington wants to work with Russia to help resolve the crisis in Syria, where both have military forces deployed, and the rivals are trying to work through their differences.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the UN General Assembly this week, but his US counterpart Donald Trump will make his much anticipated first address to the world body on Tuesday.
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Source(s): AFP
,Reuters