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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry after their press conference in Moscow on July 15 Wholesale NCAA Jerseys , 2016 (AFP PhotoNatalia Kolesnikova)
Washington - Russia, now discussing a military cooperation agreement with the United States in Syria, is still far from American positions Wholesale Jerseys Online , US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Monday.


Talks led by Secretary of State John Kerry are aimed at seeing if "it's possible... for the Russians to begin to do the right thing in Syria," Carter said.


In other words, Russia's policies that have prolonged the war should end Wholesale Jerseys Sale , he said.


"We had hoped that they would promote a political solution and transition to put an end to the civil war which is the beginning of all this violence in Syria," Carter said referring to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.


But "they're a long way from doing that," Carter stressed. "But that's what Secretary Kerry's trying to promote. And getting the Russians to do the right thing."


Russia and the United States back opposing sides in Syria's five-year war Wholesale Jerseys China , which has left 280,000 people dead and forced half the population to flee their homes.


Multiple rounds of international negotiations to end the war, which erupted in 2011 after Assad's regime unleashed a brutal crackdown against a pro-democracy revolt Wholesale Jerseys , have so far failed.


Kerry held marathon talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow last week, striking an agreement on "concrete steps" to salvage a failing truce and