Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry announced Friday their agreement to hold a new meeting on Syria in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry announced Friday their agreement to hold a new meeting on Syria in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

During a joint news conference after the tripartite meeting in Geneva attended by the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, Lavrov said that Kerry understands the need for progress in the Syrian crisis.

The Russian diplomat described the meeting as fruitful, adding that Brahimi called for creating a horizon for the Syrian compromise, which had already drawn in the statement issued by the International Conference on Syria held last year in Geneva.

Kerry, in turn, pointed to the need to work to ensure the success of the Russian initiative to put the Syrian chemical weapons under international supervision and to put an end to the increasingly bloody crisis, day after day.