“At the very beginning of August there will be a regular international meeting on Syria in the Astana format in Nur-Sultan. There are certain innovations: for the first time, representatives of Lebanon and Iraq will participate as observers, in the same status as Jordan, ”the deputy minister said, TASS quoted him.

He added that the summit in Astana format in Turkey will be held after the meeting in Nur-Sultan.

Earlier, Ibrahim Kalyn, a spokesman for the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that the next summit with the participation of the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran on the situation in the SAR may take place in mid-August.