The Syrian Arab Republic delegation headed by Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari held on Tuesday a 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 5th Astana meeting on Syria.

In the same context, the Syrian Arab Republic delegation, which arrived in the Kazakh capital on Monday, also held a meeting with the Iranian delegation headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Hossein Ansari Jabari.

Earlier in the day, the joint work group of guarantor countries (Russia, Iran, and Turkey) held a session.

The Kazakh Foreign Ministry announced that all the delegations participating in the 5th Astana meeting on Syria scheduled today and tomorrow arrived in the Kazakh capital of Astana, and that Tuesday will be dedicated to bilateral meetings while a plenary meeting is scheduled for Wednesday.

The Ministry said that all the delegations participating in the negotiations within the framework of the Astana process arrived in the Kazakh capital, including nine representatives of the “armed opposition” and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.

Astana hosted four meetings on Syria, and the Russian de-escalation zones memorandum was signed at the last meeting held in May.