Breaking the news at a news briefing in Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Liu Weimin said that the efforts of the international community should focus on implementing the decisions of the Action Group for Syria that convened in Geneva late last week.

 

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that the Geneva conference had rendered any other forums on Syria unnecessary.

 

As for the Friends of Syria group, he said that from the very start it supported only one Syrian opposition faction, the one which is based abroad.