UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has met Russian and American diplomats in Switzerland over the long-delayed talks over Syria crisis.

UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has met Russian and American diplomats in Switzerland over the long-delayed talks over Syria crisis.

On Tuesday, Brahimi met with senior Russian and American diplomats in the Swiss city of Geneva.

The meeting comes ahead of the planned conference, dubbed the Geneva II, on the crisis in the Arab country.

The Tuesday talks were aimed at discussing details of the proposed conference.

Deputy Foreign Ministers Gennady Gatilov and Mikhail Bogdanov led Russia's delegation to the November 5 event. The US delegation was headed by Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Ambassador Robert Ford, who was recalled from Damascus in February 2012.

Gatilov told Interfax earlier that the upcoming event would address all of the issues concerning the Geneva II conference, tentatively set for November 23, and Brahimi, for his part, might inform the other sides of the results of his recent trip to the region.

"The Russian delegation is going to Geneva with the most serious intentions," Gatilov said before the meeting. "We believe the main purpose of the meeting with our US partners and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is to continue constructive debate on all issues relating to the organization of the future international conference on Syria," he said.

Gatilov said that he and Bogdanov were also going to meet with members of the Syrian opposition in Geneva.

"We plan to hold a series of negotiations with representatives of the Syrian opposition on the sidelines of the consultations in Geneva. Such an agreement has already been achieved, and such contacts will take place," he said.

In the meantime, the White House said Monday that the US remains committed to holding Geneva conference in November as a negotiated solution is the only way to lead Syria out of its current crisis. "We need to press on Geneva as a way to resolve this bloodshed in Syria because otherwise the alternative is so dire indeed for the Syrian people and for the region," White House spokesman Jay Carney said at a daily press briefing.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf also expressed hope that the Geneva meeting could be held in November. She told reporters that the United States is "focused on getting the right representatives to the table."