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ASTANA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The next high-level international meeting on Syria will be held March 14-15 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, and Russia, Turkey and Iran have confirmed their participation, Kazakh Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.
The peace talks will be attended by high-ranking officials from Russia, Turkey and Iran, the foreign ministry said in a press statement. Invitations are also sent to the representatives of the UN, the U.S. and Jordan.
It is expected that Syrian government delegation and the delegation of Syrian armed opposition will also attend the meeting, the statement added.
Two rounds of international meeting took place on Jan. 23-24 and Feb. 15-16 in Astana. A technical meeting of experts was held on Feb. 6. Delegations of Russia, Iran and Turkey, representatives of Syrian government and the opposition parties, as well as representatives of the U.N., the U.S. and Jordan took part in the events.
The coordination of efforts on monitoring the ceasefire in Syria, which allowed the parties to discuss the issues of the political agenda, has become the main result of these meetings.
The Astana peace talks are held in addition to the Geneva Process and in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 2254 in 2015.
