Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Ankara, Turkey, ahead of a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the situation in Syria.
He praises Iran for its role in helping the Syrian regime in the country’s civil war.
The meeting aims to halt fighting in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib and find a lasting political solution to Syria’s civil war, now in its ninth year.
Iran has made a “significant contribution to the elimination of terrorists” and the launch of the “political process in Syria,” Putin tells press at the meeting, according to an English translation of his remarks provided by the Interfax News Agency.
Rouhani stresses the importance of Iran-Russia coordination, the report said.
— With AP
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