A meeting between the top diplomats of Russia, Syria, Turkey, and Iran is planned to be held in the near future, Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East and African countries said on Monday.

Iran PressEurope: "[The meeting] is in the works. We are setting a date," Mikhail Bogdanov, who is also the Russian  Deputy Foreign Minister, told journalists.

"The sooner the better," he said when asked whether this meeting would take place in early May or before.

According to the diplomat, the date should make sense for each of the four ministers. "There was no official date, so we didn’t postpone anything. We are coordinating [the date] now. There have been various proposals, but each of the four ministers has his own schedule," he said.

Earlier, it was reported that the senior diplomats from the four countries discussed preparations for a four-party ministerial meeting at their consultations in Moscow on April 3-4.

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