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Turkey to meet Russia and Iran for Syria resolution talks

December 15, 2016 at 6:17 pm

Turkey, Russia and Iran will hold a meeting in Moscow to resolve the conflict in Syria on 27 December.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that officials from the three countries will meet to discuss the situation in war-torn Syria, according to Turkish media reports.

“We are striving to secure a ceasefire throughout the country and for negotiations for a political solution to start,” Cavusoglu told Turkish news agency TGRT Haber.

“For this reason, at the end of the month, on December 27 in Moscow, we will hold a tripartite meeting with Turkey, Russia and Iran,” he added before accusing Syrian President Nashar Al-Assad of preventing the evacuation of civilians and rejecting the claim that opposition fighters had broken the ceasefire as “lies”.