Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a visit to Tehran next week, the Kremlin said on Tuesday (July 12), Reuters reports.
"Preparations are underway for the president's (Russian President Vladimir Putin) trip to Tehran. There is going to be a meeting of heads of states - guarantors of the Astana Process - this, as you know, is a process to promote Syrian reconciliation. So, there is going to be a meeting between Putin, Rouhani (Raisi) and Erdogan," Kremlin Spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov says.
"In addition to the trilateral meeting, of course, there will also be bilateral ones. Yesterday we announced that contacts were ongoing at the highest level between Putin and Erdogan, so this meeting will also take place there," Peskov added.
It will be only Putin's second foreign trip since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine on February 24. In late June, the Russian president went to Central Asia for a two-day tour, visiting Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
