Iranian delegation led by Senior Assistant to the Iranian Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs Ali-Asghar Khaji arrived in Moscow on Monday evening to attend expert meeting of Astana format countries on Syria.
Members of the Iranian delegation to the Syria peace talks, known as the Astana Process, have held separate meetings with the participating delegations in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan.
Special Representative of Russian President Alexander Lavrentiev and the senior assistant to the Iranian Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs Ali Asghar Khaji reviewed Damascus developments, including establishment of the constitutional committee.
Iranian envoy to Russia Mahdi Sanaei and the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin reviewed paving the grounds for holding the next round of Astana talks on solving Syrian crisis.
Iran's deputy foreign minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday that Astana negotiations comprising the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey and Russia is making good progress in the fight against terrorism, and lessening of tensions.
The presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey will meet in Istanbul on April 4 to agree additional approaches to ways of promoting a settlement in Syria on the basis of resolutions by the international community, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts in Astana, TASS reports.
Experts from Iran, Russia and Turkey, the guarantors of Syria ceasefire, are to meet in Tehran today for preparatory talks in advance of the sixth round of the Astana peace negotiations due in late August.
Iran, Russia and Turkey have postponed a planned round of talks on Syria in Kazakhstan, which Moscow had proposed for June 12-13, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said.
