UN envoy discusses Syria with Iran officials

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Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 14:50 - 28 August 2017
TEHRAN, August 28 - UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Countries Hossein Jaberi-Ansari here in Tehran on Monday.

UN envoy discusses Syria with Iran officialsTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The Iranian officials and the UN envoy mainly discussed Syrian developments and ways to end the crisis in the country through political means.

The visit comes as the next round of Syria peace talks in Kazakhstan’s capital city of Astana is to be held in mid-September.

The Kazakh Foreign Ministry said in a Tuesday Facebook post the timing of the talks would be set at a meeting in late August between experts from Russia, Turkey and Iran and “provisionally, we could be talking about mid-September.”

Astana has hosted five rounds of peace talks for Syria since January. Russia, Iran, and Turkey serve as guarantor states in the peace process. The negotiations are aimed at bringing an end to the foreign-backed militancy in Syria, which began in March 2011.

The Astana talks have so far resulted in an agreement on four de-escalation zones across Syria.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, three of the enclaves have been created to date, in the country’s sprawling central province of Homs, in the Eastern Ghouta area of the southern Rif Dimashq Province, and a southwestern militant-controlled stretch along the border with Jordan.

 

 

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