Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation in Syria during a phone call with his counterpart from the UAE, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
"The foreign ministers of Russia and the United Arab Emirates expressed their support for holding an international meeting as soon as possible in order to launch an inclusive national dialog with the participation of all political and ethno-confessional forces in the Syrian Arab Republic as soon as possible," it said.