MOSCOW (REUTERS) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will hold joint talks on Jan 13 in the run up to the so-called Geneva 2 conference on Syria, Russian Interfax news agency reported on Friday.

"On Jan 13 there will be a meeting with Kerry and a three-party one with Kerry and Brahimi," Interfax quoted an unnamed source at the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying of Mr Lavrov's meetings due in Paris.