Experts from Russia, Iran and Turkey, the guarantor states, will hold on August 8-9 a meeting in the Iranian capital of Tehran on the preparation of the next round of Astana talks on the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
During the two-day meeting, the participants will exchange views about the ongoing ceasefire and the de-escalation zones in Syria.
"The guarantor states experts' meeting is to take place on August 8-9, the date of the upcoming Astana-6 [talks] will be determined in its light," Syria's Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad told Sputnik.
According to Haddad, the meeting is likely to take place in late August, as it had been agreed at the last Astana talks held in early July.
So far, five meetings have taken place in Astana since January.
