Russia, US determined to cooperate on Syria despite Ukrainian crisis - envoy

GENEVA, April 11 (Itar-Tass) - The crisis in Ukraine has not affected Moscow’s and Washington’s determination to cooperate on Syrian settlement, Russia’s permanent representative at the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva, Aleksei Borodavkin, told Itar-Tass on Thursday. “Just recently I had a meeting with the newly-appointed US special envoy for Syria David Rubinstein,” Borodavkin said. “We had a discussion to have agreed that the process of negotiations over Syria should be resumed. We shall keep working along these lines.” “I had no impression that the Ukrainian crisis has affected the United States’ determination to cooperate with Russia on the Syrian settlement. Naturally, we have the same determination,” Borodavkin said. Rubinstein is a career diplomat with a long record of work in many countries of the region. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed him as the United States’ special envoy for Syria on March 17. He succeeded ambassador Robert Ford. Learn more on itar-tass.com