Representatives from the three guarantors of the Astana Peace Process –Iran, Russia and Turkey- and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria held a meeting in Switzerland.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held meetings with top officials of a number of UN and international organizations on the sidelines of the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan. During his stay in Switzerland on Tuesday, Zarif separately met United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held separate meetings with Afghan leaders on the sidelines of the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan. In one of the meetings on Tuesday, Zarif held talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on issues of mutual interest, including the peace process in Afghanistan. The two sides discussed the latest developments in Afghanistan […]

 Senior Assistant of Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari has arrived in Geneva to attend talks on consultations on Syrian constitutional committee with UN envoy and the two other guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire. Senior Assistant to Iranian Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Hossein Jabri Ansari arrived in Geneva to attend a meeting of UN committee tasked with preparing Syria’ future constitution. The […]

Representatives from Iran, Russia, and Turkey are meeting in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss establishing a committee tasked with drafting Syria’s new constitution. Members of the Syrian opposition have also arrived in the Swiss city where officials of the three nations acting as guarantors of a ceasefire in the war-torn country are meeting under the […]

Iranian Minister for Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, Ali Rabiei, will take part in the 107th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC 2018) in Geneva, Switzerland. Meeting with labor ministers from South Africa, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Finland, Ireland and Croatia are also on Rabiei’s agenda during his stay in Geneva from 4-7 June. He will deliver a speech at […]

The Russian president’s special envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev expected a new round of the inter-Syrian talks to be held in Geneva in the near future. “All is contingent on the consultations in Geneva with the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. We will be working with him, and I expect this to […]

VIENNA – Syria has rejected in full the informal paper on reviving the political process in Geneva because it contradicts international resolutions and aims to undermine the Geneva talks and the Sochi Congress. In a press conference at the end of Vienna’s meeting on Friday, al-Jaafari said the Syrian delegation has had constructive discussions with […]

TEHRAN  – Syria’s government delegation will arrive a day late in Geneva to take part in direct peace talks with the opposition, a Syrian foreign ministry official and a UN official said Tuesday. The United Nations was scheduled to resume the peace talks between the government and the Syrian opposition in the Swiss city on […]