Russia cold on G20 refugee pledge

The final words out of the G20 summit won't include solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis, says Russia.

G20 leaders meet in Turkey to face a call to go beyond humanitarian assistance to help refugees. (AAP)

Russia is talking down the prospect of concrete solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis coming out of the G20 summit.

However, senior Russian official Svetlana Lukash, the country's "sherpa" at the G20 being held in the Turkish resort city of Antalya, said the issue would be addressed in the final communique.

"There will be a separate part in the text, a separate paragraph in the Antalya communique, devoted to general approaches as to how to regulate the situation, on the need to increase technical and financial assistance to help refugees," she told reporters on Sunday.

"But I do not think the document may offer solutions of the problem."

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders are due to discuss the refugee crisis as part of broader talks about Syria and extremism at a working dinner in Antalya on Sunday night (Monday morning AEDT).

Mr Turnbull was praised by European leaders, at a meeting on the sidelines of the summit, on Australia's "brilliant" work in planning to resettle 12,000 refugees