Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari,along with the heads of Russian and Turkish delegations to 7th round of Astana Talks on Syria, havediscussed future of the talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
During the Tuesday meeting, the Kazakh President referred to his country’s efforts to advance Astana Talks on Syria, and expressed his views on the future of the process.
Then, Iran’s Jaberi Ansari, Russia’s Alexander Lavrentievand Turkey’s Sedat Önal, as well as representatives from the United Nations, Jordan and the United States as the observer states, expressed their views on the Astana Process and its future.
Jaberi Ansari appreciated the positive role of Kazakhstan in hosting the negotiations, and emphasized that the Astana Talks, with the collaboration of the three guarantor states, have produced positive results in creation of de-escalation zones, and stabilizing the process of effective confrontation with terrorism.
The Iranian diplomat also added that the continuation of this success requires simultaneous attention to all three military, security-political and humanitarian dimensions of the Syrian crisis.
At the end of the 7th round of talks, the three guarantor states issued a joint statement whose full text follows:
Joint statement by Iran, Russia and Turkey
on the International Meeting on Syria in Astana
30-31October 2017
The Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey as guarantors of the observance of the ceasefire regime in the Syrian Arab Republic:
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