US and Russia hold talks on Ukraine, Syria, and Iran on ASEAN sidelines | ASEAN News

Rubio and Lavrov ‘confirmed their mutual desire to find peaceful solutions to conflicts’, Russian Foreign Ministry says.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have held rare face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting in Malaysia, discussing the war in Ukraine, as well as developments in Iran and Syria, as Moscow-Washington, DC relations navigate rocky terrain.

“A substantive and frank exchange of views took place on the settlement of…