File Photo: Hezbollah fighters fire at a position of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria's Qalamoun region, on Aug. 26, 2017. (Xinhua/Ammar Safarjalani)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov here on Tuesday, seeking solutions to Ukraine and Syria conflicts.

During their talk, Tillerson and Antonov exchanged views on the need to restore Ukraine's territorial integrity and fully implement the Minsk peace agreements, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

The two also talked about battles against the Islamic State group in Syria and the United States' continued commitment to the Geneva talks as the best path toward a political solution to the six-year long conflict, according to the statement.

The Minsk agreements, reached in September 2014 and February 2015 respectively, envisaged a series of security and political steps designed to peacefully end the conflict.

The agreements include a cease-fire, a withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the contact line, a prisoner exchange and local elections in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, among other measures.