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Vienna Meeting Produces Results: Foreign Ministers Reach Agreement on Syria

© AFP 2023 / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (L), German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier (2ndL), UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (7thL), US Secretary of State John Kerry (5thR), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (4thR), Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Baodong (2ndR) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) wait before a meeting with 17 nations, the European Union and United Nations at the Hotel Imperial on October 30, 2015 in Vienna, Austria
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (L), German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier (2ndL), UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (7thL), US Secretary of State John Kerry (5thR), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (4thR), Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Baodong (2ndR) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) wait before a meeting with 17 nations, the European Union and United Nations at the Hotel Imperial on October 30, 2015 in Vienna, Austria - Sputnik International
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The meeting, which hosted top diplomats from the United States, Russia, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Lebanon and France, continued in the Austrian capital for seven hours.

Foreign ministers taking part in the Syria talks in Vienna on Friday have worked out a document to settle the Syria crisis, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told journalists. The talks are due to resume in two weeks in the same format, he added.

Earlier, US State Secretary John Kerry described the multilateral meeting in Vienna on Friday on how to end the four-year Syrian civil war as "very constructive."

"Very, very constructive," Kerry said answering a reporter's question upon leaving the negotiations room.

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