John Kerry & Sergei Lavrov: U.S. Secretary of State & Russian Counterpart Meet in Geneva Seeking Diplomatic Breakthrough with Crisis in Syria (Video)
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.