BERLIN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that the crisis in Syria could only be solved politically and she hoped that a new round of talks would bring some progress in that direction.
"I hope that the meeting tomorrow will be a small step on the way to such a political solution, for which we have to have much more patience," Merkel said during a news conference.
World and regional powers will meet in Vienna on Saturday in a bid to step up diplomatic efforts to the end the four-year-old conflict. ID:nL1N1372O0