MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syria's foreign minister is due for talks in Moscow later this month and Russia also hopes Syria's main opposition leader will visit soon in the search for a breakthrough in the bloody civil war, Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday.
Moscow has been one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad staunchest supporters throughout the revolt against him, blocking three U.N. Security Council resolutions that would have increased pressure on Damascus to end the violence which has seen nearly 70,000 people killed.