German Chancellor Angela Merkel met July 24 in Berlin with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the chief of Russia’s military General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, to discuss the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
The meeting was also attended by Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Merkel’s spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said in a statement, adding that the talks were arranged in a telephone call last week by Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
