The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif before the beginning of the talks on Syria in Lausanne, reports the RIA Novosti. The meeting was brief, reports the source.

Lavrov also met with John Kerry within the framework of talks on Syria. The participants of the latest negotiations were the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, UN special envoy Stefan de Mistura, the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq.