MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday urged the United States to more actively participate in the Syrian truce process and to pressurize militants to expand the humanitarian access in the war-raged country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Russian top diplomat discussed in a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry the recent Russia-U.S. agreement on a nationwide cease-fire in Syria, which both sides hope would lead to their countries' military cooperation to end more than five years of bloodshed there.
The week-long truce, which started on Monday, demands all warring sides in Syria stop attacks and airstrikes, and allow access to besieged areas, including the northern city of Aleppo.
Lavrov once again called on the United States to make the deal public in order to avoid any ambiguities in its implementation.
The two diplomats also discussed the situation in Syria over phone on Friday, during which Lavrov urged his U.S. counterpart to unveil those document. But so far Washington has shown no interest in doing so.
Earlier Saturday, Lavrov held a phone talk with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, during which the latter voiced Paris' support for Moscow's proposal to make those documents public.
