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The past two months have witnessed dramatic changes in the Middle East’s security architecture, with February’s devastating earthquakes sparking an outpouring of diplomatic and humanitarian support for war-torn Syria and giving rise to hopes that the US-led 12-year-old dirty war against the country may finally be reaching its end.
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The deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Iran and Turkiye are preparing to hold quadripartite talks in Moscow this week. The negotiations, expected to stretch out over two days, will be the first direct talks between Syrian and Turkish officials since December, when Moscow hosted the two countries’ defense and intelligence ministers – the first of their kind in more than a decade, to explore a possible normalization of ties.
Syrian media reported Sunday that Assistant Foreign Minister Dr. Ayman Sousan would be leading the Syrian delegation. Sousan told reporters that he and his Russian and Iranian colleagues would hold bilateral consultations on Monday, and that a quadripartite meeting with Turkiye would take place on Tuesday. Damascus’ focus, he said, will be negotiating the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syrian territory, joint efforts to combat terrorism, and non-interference in Syria’s internal affairs.
Officials in Ankara
confirmed last week that Turkiye would take part in the negotiations, with an anonymous senior official saying the talks would constitute “a continuation of the ministerial-level meetings that began during the normalization process.” No “significant decisions” are expected, according to the official, given that there will be “no ministerial-level participation” at these particular negotiations.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian confirmed Iranian participation in the talks during a press conference alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov last week, and said the “rapprochement of the views of Turkiye and Syria” will be their focus.
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