{"id":19118,"date":"2018-10-19T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19118"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:23:35","slug":"turkey-to-host-four-nation-summit-on-syria-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19118","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to host four-nation summit on Syria crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1390516\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nANKARA, Turkey: A summit between the leaders of Turkey, France, Germany and Russia will be held in Istanbul this month to discuss the conflict in Syria and efforts for a lasting solution to the war in the Arab country, a Turkish official said Friday.<br \/>Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, in a written statement said the summit will take place on October 27.<br \/>Russia and Turkey reached an agreement last month to set up a demilitarized zone around the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib preventing a government offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the country.<br \/>Idlib has been calm ever since although some militant groups did not meet an Oct. 15 deadline to evacuate the demilitarized zone that surrounds Idlib province. Many feared that a government offensive in Idlib would trigger a new refugee crisis as the region is home to some 3 million people many of them displaced by war from other parts of Syria.<br \/>Russia is a main backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad\u2019s government while Turkey has been helping insurgents trying to remove him from power.<br \/>Kalin said all aspects of the Syrian conflict are expected to be discussed, including the situation on the ground, the Idlib agreement and efforts for a lasting solution to the conflict.<br \/>German government spokeswoman Martina Fietz announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be attending the summit.<br \/>A statement by France\u2019s Elysee Palace said Paris intends primarily to promote the maintenance of the ceasefire in Idlib to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and a new mass wave of refugees, and the effective launch of an inclusive political process in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254.<br \/>\u201cThese two objectives will be at the center of discussions between Heads of State and Government,\u201d the statement said.<br \/>Security Council resolution 2254 from December 2015 called on top UN officials to convene the two sides of the Syrian conflict \u201cto engage in formal negotiations on a political transition process.\u201d<br \/>The Kremlin confirmed Vladimir Putin\u2019s participation in the summit and said it would focus on political settlement and conditions for the return of Syrian refugees.<br \/>Asked if the Kremlin was expecting a breakthrough at the meeting, Putin\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the RIA Novosti news agency that \u201cthis meeting is not about breakthroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey: A summit between the leaders of Turkey, France, Germany and Russia will be held in Istanbul this month to discuss the conflict in Syria and efforts for a lasting solution to the war in the Arab country, a Turkish official said Friday.Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, in a written statement said the summit will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}