The summit between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be held in Tabriz, the governor general of Iran’s East Azerbaijan said Tuesday. Majid Khodabakhsh said the third summit between the three presidents will be held in the provincial capital of East Azerbaijan on Friday September 7, Mehr News Agency reported. Rouhani will be hosting the third summit of its kind in Tabriz, which has been voted as the tourism capital of the Muslim world. Khodabakhsh recalled that the two previous trilateral summits, which took place within the framework of Astana peace process, were held in Russia’s Sochi and Turkey’s Ankara. Turkey, Russia and Iran are the guarantor states for the Astana peace process that aims to bring the warring sides in the brutal Syrian conflict to the negotiating table.
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