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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Iran opposes US participation in Syria peace talks in Astana: Zarif

Iran opposes US participation in Syria peace talks in Astana: Zarif
Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:21PM
http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/17/506616/Iran-US-Syria-Astana-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed the Islamic
Republic’s opposition to the participation of the United States in the
forthcoming Syria peace talks in Kazakhstan, which aim to boost efforts to
end the nearly six-year-old conflict in the Arab country.

The top Iranian diplomat made the remarks in answer to a question asked by
the Tasnim News Agency on Tuesday ahead of the planned peace talks in the
Kazakh capital of Astana.


“We have not invited the US and oppose their presence [at the talks]," Zarif
said.

The Astana negotiations will be held between representatives from the
Damascus government and foreign-sponsored opposition groups on January 23.

The negotiations, which exclude the Daesh and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri
terrorist groups, are mediated by Russia, Turkey, and Iran. The three
countries successfully implemented a similar accord in December after
militants were defeated in Syria's northwestern city of Aleppo.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on January 8 that he was "optimistic"
about the upcoming peace negotiations in Astana, and expressed his
government's readiness to negotiate with the armed opposition groups.

Mohammad Alloush, the head of the political office of the so-called Jaish
al-Islam militant group, said on Monday that foreign-sponsored militant
groups had decided to attend the Syria peace.

The Astana talks would be held in the wake of a nationwide ceasefire in
Syria, which was endorsed by the United Nations Security Council on December
31.

Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, was fully liberated in December 2016,
less than a month after the Syrian army started to drive foreign-backed
militants out of their stronghold in the eastern side of the strategic city.

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