The meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran to normalize relations between Ankara and Damascus is not scheduled yet as it is necessary to wait for the results of the presidential elections in Turkey. Russian Presidential Special Representative for the Middle East and African countries and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on Thursday in the margins of the "Russia - Islamic World: KazanForum" forum.
"Not yet. Now we have to wait for the results of the elections in Turkey. After that, we will contact our Turkish partners again and promote all these issues," he said, responding to a relevant TASS question.
On the normalization process
The process of normalization of the relations between Ankara and Damascus started on December 28, 2022, in Moscow, when the consultations of the leaders of Russian, Syrian and Turkish military departments were held. At the meeting, an agreement was reached to establish a joint trilateral commission. These consultations were to have been followed by a meeting at the level of foreign ministers, the agenda of which would have included talks between Turkish and Syrian Presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar al-Assad. Later, it was reported that Iran would participate in the consultations at the level of foreign ministers.
Erdogan told reporters last December 15 that he had proposed to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to hold a trilateral meeting with the Syrian leader. This summit, he said, should be preceded by talks at the level of representatives of special services, defense and foreign ministers.
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Based on materials from TASS