Zarif: No military solution to Syrian crisis

Addressing a the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Zarif said, 'Syrian crisis has no military solution; rather, we should reach a solution based on which Syrian people can hold talks with each other.'
He said over the past three and half years, we have repeatedly emphasized that we should not predict the outcome of the talks and judge on that basis.'
He added, 'This is our strategy of talks in the Astana session in Kazakhstan and Russia, Iran and Turkey are striving within the same framework; We hope that all the parties to the ceasefire in Syria will come for talks in Astana and end violence in the country.'
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