The Russian state-owned news agency TASS quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that talks between Putin and Assad focused on “further joint steps”.<\/p>\n
“The two presidents pointed out the importance of setting up more conditions that would facilitate the resumption of a full-fledged political process and they also noted success of the Astana process, as well as of the Congress of the Syrian People, which had been held in Sochi,” Peskov said.<\/p>\n
Putin said \u201cmuch has already been done within the Astana process\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMuch has also been done within the framework of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress held in Sochi. Now, we can make next moves jointly with you [Assad],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Putin said the next task is \u201ceconomic recovery and humanitarian assistance to the people who found themselves in a difficult situation\u201d.<\/p>\n
“Stability is growing, and all this opens the door to a political process that we started some time ago,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Of course, after this military success additional conditions have been created to restart a full-format political process,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I have always said, and I want to reiterate that we have always enthusiastically supported a political process that should proceed hand-in-hand with fight against terrorism,” Assad for his part said.<\/p>\n
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since 2011 when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.<\/p>\n
Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict, according to the UN.<\/p>\n
Turkey, Russia, and Iran have reached an agreement on holding the next high-level meeting on Syria in Russian resort city of Sochi in July 2018.<\/p>\n
The Astana peace talks were launched on Jan. 23-24, 2017, with the aim of putting an end to violence and improving the humanitarian situation in war-torn Syria.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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