TEHRAN, Jul. 24 (Press Shia Agency) – China’s special envoy for Syria and MENA department director at Iranian Foreign Ministry emphasized on restoring territorial integrity and sovereignty of Syria.China's Special Envoy for Syria Xie Xiaoyan met and talked with Director General of the Foreign Ministry’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Department on Sunday in Tehran. At the joint...
Tehran, Jul. 15 (Press Shia) – Iran’s SNSC Secretary Shamkhani has met with Russian president special envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev on Saturday in Tehran.The meeting had focused on latest developments in Syria and the process to establish peace and settle the conflict. Ali Shamkhani, while stressing the need to respect Syria’s sovereignty by all involved countries in the conflict,...
GENEVA, Jul. 11 (Press Shia Agency) – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura affirmed the need to make use of the positive outcomes achieved at Astana meetings on Syria to have a progress during the 7th round of the Syrian-Syrian dialogue being held in Geneva.“We don’t expect any breakthrough although we support that, but we want to see important developments which have given the...
DAMASCUS, Jul. 09 (Press Shia) – UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy affirmed that the upcoming Geneva meeting due to start on Monday would discuss four baskets in parallel with continuing technical negotiations about the legal and constitutional matters related to the political process.During a statement to journalists at Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Saturday, Ramzy...
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (Press Shia Agency) – Iranian and French representatives on Syria affairs attending the Astana peace talks stressed on a political agreement as the only viable solution to the Syrian crisis.Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari, who heads the Iranian delegation to Astana talks, met with French government’s special representative on...
ASTANA, Jul. 06 (Press Shia) – The next International Meeting on Syrian Settlement in Astana (Astana process) will be held in late August 2017, Foreign Affairs Minister of Kazakhstan Kairat Abdrakhmanov revealed on Wednesday.Kazakh Foreign Minister Abdrakhmanov read out the joint statement of the guarantor states - Russia, Turkey and Iran following the 5th round of the Astana process in the...
ASTANA, Jul. 05 (Press Shia Agency) – A source told Sputnik that Parties to the ongoing Astana talks on Syria have agreed on two out of the four de-escalation zones.Parties to the ongoing Astana talks on Syria have reached an agreement on two out of the four de-escalation zones, but will adopt the whole package of documents related to the issue during the next round of negotiations, a source at...
ASTANA, Jul. 05 (Press Shia) – Second and last day of the fifth international meeting on Syria in Astana has kicked off Wednesday with bilateral meetings between the participating delegations, a Sputnik correspondent reported.Defining the exact borders of the four deescalation zones in Syria and the monitoring procedures are the main issues on the agenda. The fifth...
ASTANA, Jul. 04 (Press Shia) – Delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic, headed by Bashar al-Jaafari, held a second consultative meeting with the Russian delegation, headed by Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Vershinin, in the framework of Astana 5th meeting works.Earlier, al-Jaafari announced that the delegation is still in the...
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (Press Shia Agency) – The Astana consultations on Syria have already brought concrete results contributing to the political process in the country, while the Geneva talks is much less effective, Syrian Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar said."Speaking of the platform, it has managed to bring concrete results contributing to the...
