Syria Talks Connote Effective Tehran-Moscow Coop.

The results of talks in Astana on the Syrian crisis are one example of successful cooperation between Tehran and Moscow, Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei said Tuesday. "As for the cooperation between Iran and Russia, it showed its efficiency. We saw the result in the Astana process," the envoy noted, according to Sputnik. Iran maintains that the countries in the region should solve regional issues on their own, he added. Russia and Iran alongside Turkey are the guarantor states of the Syrian ceasefire regime. At the last Astana talks on Syria, which took place on May 3-4, the three ceasefire guarantor states signed a memorandum on the establishment of four de-escalation zones in Syria. The monitoring and management of the safe zones is carried out by military personnel from the ceasefire guarantor states. On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the next round of talks on the Syrian settlement in the Kazakh capital will be held July 4-5.