Moscow-Sana
The Special Representative of the Russian President for Middle East and African Affairs expressed his country's hope for real progress in the next meeting of talks on Syria in the "Astana" format, which will be held from June 14 to 16.
Russia Today quoted Bogdanov as saying that "the new meeting in Nur-Sultan is very important in order to discuss what must be done to expedite these operations and secure the future of the Syrians and the future of all of us from potential threats from terrorists."
Bogdanov also made it clear that a full set of issues that will be discussed on the agenda of the Astana talks, stressing that they will all be addressed.
A spokesman for the Kazakh Foreign Ministry, Ipek Smadyarov, announced yesterday that the next meeting of talks on Syria in the “Astana” format will be held in the capital, Nur-Sultan, in mid-June.
It is noteworthy that this is the eighteenth meeting of the talks on Syria in the Astana formula, and the last meeting of the Astana formula was held in the Kazakh capital, Nur Sultan, last December.