FM: Syria ready to focus on 'dialogue'

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that the situation in Syria has reached a new stage focused on political settlement, with anti-terrorism, dialogue and reconstruction as priorities.

"Dialogue and negotiation are the only ways to solve the Syrian issue," Wang told Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in Beijing.

Syria's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity should be safeguarded, and the Syrian people should remain at the core of any political settlement, he said.