Russia to host trilateral leaders' summit with Turkey, Iran in early 2019

29 December 2018 - Tehran (ISNA) - Turkey, Russia and Iran, the three guarantors of the Astana Process, will discuss the Syrian conflict at a meeting early next year in Moscow, Russia's deputy foreign minister announced.

"It's our turn to host the summit ... around the first week of the year. This will depend on the schedules of the presidents," Mikhail Bogdanov told the Interfax news agency.

The meeting will be the latest step in the Astana peace process, set up in early 2017 by Russia, Iran and Turkey, Daily Sabah reported.

The last meeting between the three leaders, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, took place in Tehran in September.

The guarantors have said that the Astana process is not an alternative but a complementary initiative to the U.N.-brokered Geneva talks.

Source: https://en.isna.ir/news/97100804091/Russia-to-host-trilateral-leaders-summit-with-Turkey-Iran-in