Clinton, Russian official to meet on Syria

UN envoy arranges trilateral meeting

POSTED: 02:39 AM MST Dec 06, 2012    UPDATED: 02:52 AM MST Dec 06, 2012 
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(CNN) -

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has accepted an invitation by UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for a trilateral meeting on Syria with Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a senior state department official said.

The meeting is scheduled to take palce at 6 a.m. ET Thursday.

Clinton is in Dublin for an international security conference.

Russia and China have repeatedly blocked UN votes for intervention in Syria's civil war.

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