Next round of Astana talks on Syria to be held on July 6-8 in the Kazakh capital

The next round of the Astana-format negotiations on Syria will be held in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan on July 6-8, Yaroslav Moskalik, the Deputy Head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate, announced on Thursday.

“We are actively working to settle the crisis in Syria within the Astana format. The next meeting will take place quite soon, from July 6-8 in the city of Nur-Sultan,” Moskalik said at the Moscow Conference on International Security.

Earlier, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Bogdanov said that Astana meeting on Syria may be held late in July in Nur – Sultan.

The Kazakh capital was scheduled to host the Astana talks in May, but a media source at the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said that the talks were delayed because of Corona pandemic.

The Astana meetings on Syria kicked off at the beginning of 2017. 15 meetings have been held, two of them were held in the Russian city of Sochi.

 Talks during these meetings affirmed commitment to preserving Syria’s sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and to fighting terrorist organizations until their complete elimination.

Hamda Mustafa