UK Prime Minister David Cameron is in Washington for talks with US President Barack Obama.
David Cameron is expected to push for a peace conference on Syria to be held by the end of the month.
The prime minister believes progress is possible after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.
Other issues likely to be discussed include Iran, trade between the EU and the US, and the forthcoming G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
Mr Cameron has travelled to the US primarily for a UN meeting on global development, so, says the BBC's North America editor Mark Mardell, there will be no ping pong matches or attending basketball matches together.
Instead it will mainly business, in particular the conflict in Syria. Mark Mardell says the US and Europe are "slowly inching towards arming the rebels".
This would be a complicated move, because there are many different rebel groups, some of which are hostile to the West.
Since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule began more than two years ago, at least 70,000 people are believed to have been killed and more than 1.2 million are living outside Syria as refugees.
Peace conference
President Putin together with the US proposed an international conference to find a political solution to the crisis, an issue discussed when he met David Cameron on Friday.
However details of who would attend this conference are vague, and no date has been set.
Mr Putin has been portrayed as one of the main obstacles preventing Western countries taking a stronger line on Syria.
As well as Syria, the two leaders will also discuss the possibility of launching talks on a EU-US trade deal at the G8 meeting to be held in June in Northern Ireland.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Mr Cameron said: "When times are tough, some want to put the barriers up, to look inwards, and to protect themselves from the world.
"Trade makes the cake bigger so everyone can benefit. Take the free trade area between Europe and the US on which we hope to launch negotiations when President Obama is in Northern Ireland for the G8 next month.
"This deal could add as much as £10bn to the British economy and £63bn [$97bn] to US GDP."
The prime minister has also called for action on tax avoidance and evasion at the G8 summit.
Source: BBC.co.uk
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