View of Nur-Sultan. File photoNUR-SULTAN, May 24.The next round of talks on Syria in the «Astana format» will be held in Nur-Sultan on June 14-16, said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Aibek Smadiyarov. «The eighteenth round will be held in Nur-Sultan on June 14-16,» Smadiyarov told reporters on the sidelines of the government. According to him, the ministry sent an invitation to all guarantor countries, as well as other participants. «We are waiting for confirmation from all sides,» he explained. The previous intra-Syrian talks were held in the capital of Kazakhstan on December 21-22. An armed conflict has continued in Syria since 2011. Negotiations in Nur-Sultan, known as the «Astana format» (after the former name of the capital of Kazakhstan), have been ongoing since 2017, and in January 2018, the Syrian National Dialogue Congress was held in Sochi, which was the first attempt since the beginning of the conflict to gather on one negotiation platform wide range of participants. The main result of the congress was the decision to establish a constitutional committee, which operates in Geneva, its main task is to prepare a constitutional reform. three people when attacking Israel
