NNA - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were set on Tuesday to hold talks on the conflict in Syria amid growing concern about Moscow's arms deliveries to the Damascus regime amid a spiralling death toll, AFP reported.



Netanyahu is just the latest world leader to beat a path to Putin's door for talks on Syria in recent days, after US Secretary of State John Kerry and British Prime Minister David Cameron met the Russian strongman last week.



In the wake of the talks with Netanyahu at Putin's vacation residence in the southern resort of Sochi, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is also due to travel to Russia later this week.



"The situation [in Syria] unfortunately has a tendency towards a further escalation which can only arouse great concern on the part of Russia... and Israel," Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said ahead of the talks with Netanyahu, quoted by Russian news agencies.


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