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Monday 10 April 2017 - 11:13
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Preparation of Astana talks on Syrian crisis continues

Sputnik - Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhamanov said that the preparation of the talks on the Syrian crisis settlement in Astana, set to take place in May, is continuing.


ASTANA (Sputnik)The preparation ofthe talks onthe Syrian crisis settlement inAstana, set totake place inMay, is continuing, all political parties, which are interested inthe reconciliation process, should support talks onSyria inboth Astana and Geneva, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said Monday.


We are calling onall parties, which are interested inpeaceful settlement ofSyrian conflict, tosupport Astana process and, most ofall, Geneva processes, which is going underthe auspices ofthe United Nations, Abdrakhmanov said.


Abdrakhmanov expressed hope that all parties involved inthe Syrian crisis settlement process will use their political influence tosupport its processes.

Of course, the foreign minister said inresponse towhether Kazakhstan is continuing the preparation ofthe talks inMay.

We are currently waiting forfurther information onplanned meeting inTehran, and then onthe meeting inAstana onMay 3-4, fromthe guarantor states ofAstana process, Abdrakhmanov said.

The Intra-Syrian talks inAstana are mainly devoted tothe ceasefire regime inSyria and everything that is beyondthe monitoring ofthis regime inthe country, is widely discussed atthe international arena, Abdrakhmanov added.

Kazakhstan's capital ofAstana has hosted three rounds oftalks onSyrian settlement brokered byRussia, Turkey and Iran, held onJanuary 23-24, February 15-16 and March 14-15. During the talks, the participants agreed toset upa ceasefire monitoring group, amongother issues. The next meeting onSyria inAstana is expected totake place inearly May.

The fifth roundof peace talks underthe UN auspices inGeneva took place onMarch 23-31. The new roundof Geneva negotiations onSyria will take place inMay atthe earliest and not beforethe talks inAstana, Bassma Kodmani, Syrian opposition's High Negotiations Committee (HNC) spokeswoman, told Sputnik onThursday.

The nationwide Syrian ceasefire regime was introduced onDecember 30, 2016, withRussia and Turkey being its guarantors.
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