Russian President Vladimir Putin will fly to Britain a day before next week’s G8 summit for talks with David Cameron on the conflict in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will fly to Britain a day before next week's G8 summit for talks with David Cameron on the conflict in Syria, the British prime minister announced Wednesday.

The two leaders will meet at Cameron's Downing Street office on Sunday, before heading to Northern Ireland for the summit of Group of Eight nations on Monday and Tuesday.

"We should use the G8 to try and bring pressure on all sides, to bring about what we all want in this House, which is a peace conference, a peace process and a move towards a transitional government in Syria," Cameron told the House of Commons.

Russia has proposed with the United States an international peace conference to get the two sides in the conflict to the negotiating table.

However, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned at the weekend that military gains made by the Assad regime, including taking back the al-Qusayr region near the Lebanese border from the mercenaries, made peace more elusive.

During Cameron's weekly question-and-answer session in the Commons, the opposition Labour leader accused him of neglecting efforts for peace in favour of pushing the EU to drop its embargo on providing weapons to the Syrian insurgents.

Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the Syrian government accuses foreign actors of orchestrating the conflict, by supporting the militant opposition groups with arms and money.