BEIJING, November 8. /TASS/. The U.S. agrees the Syrian opposition should represent various forces, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday following a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

“We have discussed it necessary to resume a political process of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition,” the Russian foreign minister said. “The secretary of state has agreed with our thesis the Syrian opposition should represent various groups, not only national coalitions featuring people, who left Syria quite a time ago and have not come to the country; there are also groups of domestic opposition, political teams, I mean. Thus, it is necessary to have the opposition representative.”

“We have also discussed what Russia and the U.S., the countries in the region could do to support the efforts to begin a national dialogue between all the Syrians, like it was suggested in the well-known Geneva statement of June 30, 2012,” Lavrov said.

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Russia and the U.S. will continue bringing closer their positions in methods for fighting terrorism, Lavrov said.