US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have started talks as fugitive US leaker Edward Snowden sought asylum from a Moscow airport.
Lavrov refused to answer a shouted question about the Snowden case as he met Kerry on the sidelines of an Asian security forum in the sultanate of Brunei.
Kerry said only: "We will have a chance to talk about a lot of things."
The talks are the highest-level contact between the two nations since Snowden, a former government contractor who leaked explosive details of US surveillance, flew from Hong Kong to Moscow over a week ago. He has asked 21 nations to consider asylum.
President Vladimir Putin has said that Snowden is welcome to stay in Russia but that he must "stop his work aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners -- no matter how strange this may sound coming from me."
The long-scheduled talks between the countries' two top diplomats had initially been set to focus primarily on the civil war in Syria as Kerry tries in vain to arrange a conference in Geneva aimed at a political settlement.
Russia is a long-time supporter of embattled President Bashar al-Assad while the United States, Gulf Arab monarchies, France and Britain have been boosting support for rebels in the conflict that has claimed nearly 100,000 lives.
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