A meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey has started in Doha. Sergey Lavrov, Abbas Araghchi and Hakan Fidan hold extraordinary talks in the Astana format in connection with the aggravation of the situation in Syria, reports “Kommersant”.

It is reported that the topic of discussion of diplomats is the situation in Syria in connection with the intensification of hostilities in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.

At the end of last month, on November 26, Syrian militants launched the largest offensive since 2020 on Idlib province and the city of Aleppo.

The Astana format includes Russia, Iran and Turkey as guarantor countries of the process, as well as representatives of the Syrian government and opposition, the UN and observer countries Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon. The first round of negotiations in the Astana format took place in January 2018.