MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th April, 2019) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, discussed on Wednesday the situation in Syria, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
Zarif is currently in Turkey where he met Cavusoglu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On Tuesday, Zarif visited Syria where he held negotiations with President Bashar Assad.
"During the talks the parties discussed ... the developments in Syria, Zarif's consultations with the Syrian officials as well as the situation around the EU financial mechanism on supporting trade with our country," the ministry said in its Telegram-channel.
During the talks, Cavusoglu expressed condolences over the deadly floods in Iran and expressed Ankara's readiness to provide Tehran with additional aid. The Turkish foreign minister also condemned the US sanctions against Tehran and called for further development of the bilateral trade and economic relations.
Zarif thanked his counterpart for the Turkish position on the US sanctions and agreed on the need for further development of the bilateral ties.
Both Turkey and Iran, along with Russia, are participants of the so-called Astana format of the Syrian reconciliation talks as well as guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire.
