Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Sputnik / Alexey Filippov
The deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria may meet in Moscow in early April, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted as saying on March 27 by the RIA Novosti news agency.
The senior diplomat said that the situation in Syria and the normalization process between Ankara and Damascus are to be the key focus of the talks.
The normalization process achieved a major breakthrough last December when the defense ministers and intelligence chiefs of Turkey and Syria met in Moscow.
The Russian capital was supposed to host the follow up meeting between the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria early on in March. However, the meeting was canceled due to “technical reasons,” which were likely related to certain demands made by Damascus.
During his recent visit to Moscow, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stated that he would not meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan until Turkey’s “illegal occupation” of Syrian territory was over. To this day, the Turkish military holds vast parts of the country’s northern region.
Just a day after Bogdanov’s remarks, on March 28, Reuters confirmed in a report that the quadruple deputy foreign ministers meeting will be held. A senior Turkish official told the news agency that the talks will take place on April 3-4.
“This meeting is expected to be a continuation of the ministerial-level meetings that began during the normalization process,” the unnamed official said. “However, since there will be no ministerial-level participation and the meeting will be at a technical level, significant decisions are not expected.”
An unnamed senior Iranian foreign ministry official also confirmed to the agency that the meeting in Moscow will be in the first week of April.
The upcoming quadruple meeting in Moscow is meant to set the stage for the next phase of the Turkish-Syrian normalization process, which could see the foreign ministers or even the presidents of the two neighboring countries meeting. However, with Damascus current demands this will not likely happen before the upcoming general elections in Turkey next May.
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Two governments that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood will meet with two governments that support the Muslim Brotherhood. It is interesting how it will play out. It is interesting to see what other Muslim forces like Egypt will do on the Syrian file and also if Europe becomes independent what will the new European forces do.
Its not related to any mother or brotherhood.
Its more like the countries in Europe where none of them see Stalin or Putin as their father and mother.
None of them prefared Hitler instead even there were nazis here and there.
Its greedy powerplay between infantiles.
And they have no intension for repair or regain anything.
Even today it would make sense the Northern parts of Syria and Iraq as well as the eastern parts of Turkey became some kind of autonome not connected to any of them.
What its about is very visible on the war maps. Some Jihadist has the uppercorner. Som SDFs has the old Raqqa province(the ottoman version) and some has the parts in Iraq apart from the killers from Iran as well as Turkey are there too.
It should make plus for Putin too. The Russians has their bases now. They are not in the north and east at all.
And the rest is as usual about oil and gas and nothing else. The productiondcould be shared into every single citicens account by sober admnistration. They could give children half and help them by schools or education.
Before the war Assads and the Bathists were private owners. They sharesd nothing with the rest. Next ISIS took it and next SDF partly sharing with the Americans took it from them. At least SDF represent the people living in that enclave.
Only the deliveres in airtransport, good meals and nice hotelrooms should be happy for that kind of meeting.
SDF don’t have the strength to go alone and they have many enemies.
You say about power play, however, the US supported the weakest player after HTS.
Chris Gr Just like you Chris who is ASHAMED OF HIS TURKISH DNA,EUROPE AND EUROPEANS HAVE LOST THEIR SENSE OF BEING WHAT THEY ARE AND POTENTIAL THEY HAVE Biggest factor hampering MUSLIM NATIONS WAS zio Christian west THEY FACTOR HAS SUDDENLY EVAPORATED AND NOW YOU WILL SEEE A DIFFERENT WORLD AND you being hypocrite will suddenly become proud of your Turkish DNA
Shia Pakis tried to kill Jewish people here in Greece. There is one lesson to be learned. You don’t mess with the chosen ones.
A diplomat from the US Embassy will supervise the meeting and make sure the talks end up in something useful, and not another babbling competition.
It must be a magician or Jeff Dunham which made Acmed the Dead terrorist
Tak ak by sa im podarilo uzatvoriť dohodu tak to by bol veľký úspech Ruskej diplomacie. Dúfajme, že to Rus zvládne!!! Rus vie byť dobrým mediátorom.
Little acorns. This tree will soon grow fast. Let us hope that the tribes have learnt some lessons, as no man is an island.