Russia-Turkey-Iran to discuss prisoner exchange

Joint group on ceasefire monitoring in Syria will discuss efforts to release detainees and facilitate exchange of prisoners during its regular meetings
Iranian (L), Russian (M) and Turkish (R) foreign ministers.
Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:30

Joint Russia-Turkey-Iran group on ceasefire monitoring in Syria will discuss efforts to release detainees and facilitate exchange of prisoners during its regular meetings, the document adopted in Astana and obtained by Sputnik news agency reads.

One of the issues that will be discussed during the group's regular meetings is "efforts to organize the release of detainees/abductees as well as exchange of prisoners and bodies on a mutually accepted basis, to identify missing persons of the parties of the arrangement on the ceasefire and to facilitate the unhindered and sustainable humanitarian access and free movement of civilians," the Concept Paper on the Joint Group reads.