Hillary Clinton arrives in Russia to Syria meeting on

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived on Thursday to St. Petersburg in northwest Russia, where he will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to discuss the crisis in Syria. Clinton also will attend a conference in Russia's second largest city on the role of women in the economy, before meeting with the Russian minister, scheduled for Friday, the eve of an international meeting in Geneva on the conflict in Syria. This meeting comes at a time when Russia said he would not support a solution imposed by the west to Syria, a day after the presentation by the envoy of the UN, Kofi Annan, a plan that provides for the formation of a transitional government, thus cooling the hopes of an agreement at the Geneva meeting. "Russia can not support and will not support an income imposed from outside," Lavrov said during a news conference in Moscow. The Annan plan should be discussed Saturday in Geneva in the presence of the five permanent members of Security Council UN (United States, Russia, China, France and the UK). Russia has so far been adamant in its support for its ally Syria, for which continues to send weapons, while denying on several occasions his personal support to President Bashar al-Assad. The revolt and its repression in Syria had about 16 people dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.