Moscow believes it is counterproductive to put forward artificial demands for Syrian refugees to return to their homeland, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday.

Beirut sees no reasons for Syrian refugees to stay in Lebanon, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said Monday.

The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire regime in Syria registered 26 truce breaches over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side recorded three violations, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that he planned to discuss concrete steps to ensure the return of Syrian refugees with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil.

Representatives of the Syrian guarantor states - Russia, Turkey and Iran - and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will hold a meeting in Geneva in the in first half of September, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Monday.

China hopes that the work to set up the Syrian constitutional commission will be terminated by late September, Special Envoy of the Chinese Government on the Syrian Issue Xie Xiaoyan said on Monday.

China hopes that the work to set up the Syrian constitutional commission will be terminated by late September, Special Envoy of the Chinese Government on the Syrian Issue Xie Xiaoyan said on Monday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil over a number of international issues in Moscow on Monday.

Chinese special envoy for Syria Xie Xiaoyan told Sputnik on Monday that he hoped to visit Russia till the end of the year.