U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a picture with his mobile device from his hotel room at the Beau-Rivage Palace ahead of Syria talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, October 15, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Lausanne: US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov held face-to-face talks Friday for the first time since Washington halted their bilateral push for peace in Syria.
The pair met in a Lausanne hotel shortly before they were to take part in a broader meeting with regional players to relaunch international efforts to end the Syrian war, officials said.
