Russia, Kazakhstan to discuss Astana meeting

Russian and Kazakh Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Kairat Abdrakhmanov will meet in Moscow on January 20 to discuss the organizational issues of a meeting on Syria in Astana, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova informed, TASS reports. 

"The ministers will discuss a number of topical issues of bilateral relations and analyze in detail the approaches to the issues of the international agenda," the spokeswoman said.

"Attention will be paid to interaction in the EAEU [the Eurasian Economic Union], the SCO [the Shanghai Cooperation Organization], and the issue of cooperation in the UN Security Council will be discussed," Zakharova said.

"The sides will consider a number of organizational aspects of the upcoming international meeting on the Syrian settlement," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.