Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said that Russian-Turkish and Russian-Iranian consultations are due to take place on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Astana talks on Syria. “Today intensive bilateral consultations are due to take place, namely between Russia and Turkey, Russia and Iran,” Abdrakhmanov said. Earlier in the day, the intra-Syrian peace talks officially kicked off in Astana, ...
Syrian foreign-backed opposition factions will not attend a new round of negotiations with government figures in the Kazakh capital, an opposition delegation spokesman told AFP on Monday. “Opposition groups have decided not to participate in Astana,” said Osama Abu Zeid, saying one reason for the boycott was “unfulfilled pledges related ...
