Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Risi to discuss Syria during his visit to Tehran, the Kremlin announced on Tuesday.
This will be Putin's second trip abroad since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the three leaders from the three guarantor states of the Astana process, designed to find a peace solution in Syria, will hold a tripartite meeting, writes Reuters.
Russia and Iran are the main military and political backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has provided military aid to the Free Syrian Army and other rebel groups still fighting Assad's forces in northwestern Syria.
The Kremlin had said on Monday that Putin and Erdogan, who has mediated between Moscow and Kiev since Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine on February 24, would hold further talks shortly after a telephone conversation in which they discussed efforts to facilitate grain exports from Ukraine.
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