US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov would meet next week to discuss holding a planned Syria peace conference and find answers to questions like who would attend and when to hold it, a UN spokeswoman said in Geneva according to dpa. The preparatory talks between US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Geneva focused on who would attend from the Syrian opposition and on whether Syria's ally Iran would send an envoy but in vain.