ANKARA, Apr 7 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that he had discussed the situation in Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
«We assessed the situation in Syria. We thank Mr. Lavrov and the Russian Foreign Ministry for preparing and holding a meeting of the Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, Turkey, Iran and Syria in Moscow on April 4,» Cavusoglu said at a press conference after talks with Lavrov.
According to him, Ankara hopes that the Syrian settlement process will continue in the same transparent and open form as before.
Deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey agreed to continue contacts during a quadripartite meeting, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.