Amidst the Obama administration’s increased focus on Syria, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for talks in Ireland Thursday night. The New York Times is reporting Brahimi has begun mounting a diplomatic push for an agreement within Syria that would lead to the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. After Thursday’s meeting, Brahimi disclosed few details but said the talks were productive.

Lakhdar Brahimi: “I am discussing the situation with all the countries that I call that have influence and interest or both, and definitely this is the case for Russia and the United States. We haven’t taken any sensational decisions, but I think we have agreed that the situation is bad, and we have agreed that we must continue to work together to see how we can find creative ways of bringing this problem under control and hopefully starting to solve it.”