MNA� A new meeting on Syrian settlement in the Kazakh capital has officially kicked off with a bilateral meeting between the UN and Russian delegations, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Tuesday.


The UN expert delegation is led by�Milos Strugar.

The Delegations from�Damascus, Turkey and Iran had already arrived in�Astana for�the talks. Representatives of�the Syrian armed opposition, mainly from�the South Front, may come later on�Tuesday.

The first round�of Astana talks on�Syria brokered by�Russia, Turkey and Iran were held on�January 23-24 and resulted in�a Moscow-Tehran-Ankara agreement on�the establishment of�a trilateral mechanism to�monitor the ceasefire in�Syria.

The second round�of the Astana talks took place on�February 15-16, with�the participants agreeing to�set up�a ceasefire monitoring group, encompassing Iran, Russia and Turkey, that would report to�the United Nations.