An activist holds a tablet with a picture of the lifeless body of a Russian pilot of a war plane shot down by Turkey, in front of the Turkish embassy in Moscow, Russia, November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
(Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday he hoped that Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the border with Syria would not hamper talks on solving the Syrian civil war.
"What we must hope for is that this occurrence will not deal a setback to the encouraging first talks, which offer a small hope of de-escalating the Syrian conflict," Steinmeier said in Berlin.
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