MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A Russian delegation is scheduled to hold bilaterals in Kazakhstan’s capital with delegations of the Syrian government, Iran, Turkey and the United Nations. Syrian opposition factions said they would stay out of the third round of Astana talks.
"We obviously regard [the Astana talks] as an extremely important negotiating process and have been aware of its extreme complexity since the very beginning: the situation at these talks is often complicated by significant differences in approaches of various parties, but the work is still on," Peskov told reporters.
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.
The third round of intra-Syrian talks in Astana will take place on March 14-15, with the consultations to be held on the first day and the plenary session to take place on Wednesday.
