The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey are set to meet in Kazakhstan next week as the three countries attempt to move forward with a plan to end nearly seven years of war in Syria, AFP reported Tuesday (March 6th).
Kazakhstan's foreign ministry said the top diplomats of regime allies Russia and Iran and opposition-backer Turkey would hold a March 16th meeting in the capital Astana "without observers or Syrian sides".
The statement also said the UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura would be invited to the meeting.
Talks on Syria in Astana, which have usually involved regime and opposition delegations, as well as the three guarantors, began in January 2017. They run parallel to UN-led negotiations in Geneva.
