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Russia, US agree joint push for peace in Syria
Parvez Jabri
08 May, 2013
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![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2013/05/syria9.jpg">MOSCOW: After months of sharp differences, Russia and the United States have agreed to push both sides in Syria to find an end to the bloodshed, offering to hold an international conference in search of peace.</P><P>Syrian rebels meanwhile said they had seized four Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, the second time in two months that UN troops have been abducted in the tense ceasefire zone between Syria and Israel.</P><P>In talks which stretched late into Tuesday night, US Secretary of State John Kerry met first for more than two hours with President Vladimir Putin and then for a further three with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.</P><P>)