The United States must stop insisting on a regime change in Syria if it wants to reach a deal with Russia to effect peace in the Arab country, an analyst suggests.
In a phone interview with Press TV on Monday, James Jatras, a former diplomat and adviser at the US Senate Republican leadership, said failure to reach a deal on the Syria crisis following myriads of meetings between Russian and US officials is “hardly surprising.”
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, on Monday to come to an agreement over the situation in the war-ravaged Muslim country, but to no avail.
Obama spoke of “grave differences with the Russians in terms of both the parties we support but also the process that is required to bring about peace in Syria.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have also been holding meetings one after another for the past three…