Following months of disagreement over the settlement in Syria, finally the United States was convinced that there is no but a peaceful solution for the ongoing crisis.

Following months of disagreement over the settlement in Syria, finally the United States was convinced that there is no but a peaceful solution for the ongoing crisis.

US Secretary of State, John Kerry made a visit to Russia on Tuesday, when he met first for more than two hours with President Vladimir Putin and then for a further three with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Following the meeting, Kerry seemed to soften the US stand on the future of President Bashar al-Assad.
He told reporters that only the Syrian regime and the opposition can determine the make-up of a transitional government in the crisis-hit country.

"It's impossible for me as an individual to understand how Syria could possibly be governed in the future by the man who has committed the things that we know have taken place," Kerry said during a press conference in Moscow.

"But I'm not going to decide that tonight, and I'm not going to decide that in the end."

For his part, Lavrov said that Russia and the United States “will encourage both the Syria government and opposition groups to find a political solution.”

Hopefully by the end of May the two ministers working together could convene an international conference to build on the Geneva accord agreed by world powers last June for a peaceful solution in Syria, the two top diplomats said.

The Geneva agreement, which was never implemented, set out a path toward a transitional government without ever spelling out the fate of President Assad.

The six-point accord -- negotiated by the last UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan -- "should be the road map... by which the people of Syria can find their way to the new Syria and in which the bloodshed, the killing, the massacres can end", Kerry said.

"The alternative is that there's even more violence, the alternative is that Syria heads even closer to the abyss, if not over the abyss and into chaos," Kerry warned.