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Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syrian deputy foreign ministers on March 15-16 in Moscow the scheduled meeting has been postponed indefinitely.
Reuters this information Turkey He writes that he received it from a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu last week he said that after the Moscow meeting of the deputies, the ministers of the four countries will meet and discuss the Syrian crisis.
The meeting in question is on March 15-16 in Moscow Anadolu Agency will be held at the beginning of the week news had given
Turkey A source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the meeting was postponed due to “technical reasons”.
After the “historical” meeting
As part of the planned rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus, the defense ministers of Syria and Turkey last December in Moscow they had met.
The Minister of Defense of Russia also took part in that “historic” meeting. It was the first meeting at the highest level between the three countries since the start of the war in Syria.
January Çavuşoğlu said that he could meet his Syrian counterpart in February.
Turkey is against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad political and the only one supporting the armed Syrian opposition NATO is a member.
Turkey has deployed its army units in the northern regions of Syria.
Moscow’s desire
Moscow, the main ally of Assad, has always tried to bring Ankara-Damascus closer together.
Iranian colleague last week Hussein Amir-AbdullahianAfter the meeting, Çavuşoğlu said that Iran and Turkey-Syria-Russia wants to join the talks and Turkey has agreed to it.
On March 16, the president of Syria Bashar al-Assad Russia said in an interview to the media that he the president With Recep Tayyip Erdogan the meeting can be held only after the withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Syria and the restoration of the pre-war situation there.
Turkey, the biggest supporter of the anti-Assad opposition, is in northern Syria military has created a base and thousands in this region soldier placed.
This prevents the Assad government from gaining control of northern Syria.
Assad imposes conditions on Erdogan
In an interview with Russian television, Assad said that the northern territories of his country were “illegally occupied”.
He called on Ankara to stop “terrorist support” and withdraw its troops from Syrian territories: