The final statement of the tripartite summit in Turkey confirms the preservation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and Putin announces that it laid the basis for a solution in Syria and cites the Quran on solving the Yemen crisis.

The final communique of the tripartite summit on Syria, in the Turkish capital Ankara, stressed the preservation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and adherence to the principles of the United Nations.

The Turkish capital, Ankara, on Monday, a tripartite summit brought together Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian Vladimir Putin and Iranian Hassan Rouhani, to discuss the Syrian crisis, according to the official Turkish Anadolu news agency.

The statement stressed the refusal of the leaders of the three countries to try to create any new facts in the field under the cloak of fighting terrorism in Syria.

The leaders stressed that security and stability in northeastern Syria can only be achieved on the basis of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria.

The statement quoted the leaders of the three countries as condemning the US decision regarding the Syrian Golan Heights, which violates international laws and threatens the security of the region.

The leaders participating in the tripartite summit reiterated that the Syrian crisis cannot be resolved by military means, and the need to resolve the conflict through the political process, led by the Syrians under the auspices of the United Nations.

This is the fifth tripartite summit of Putin, Erdogan and Rouhani.

The three regional powers are the “guarantors” of the Astana peace process launched in Kazakhstan in January 2017 to end the Syrian war and aim to complete UN-led efforts to resolve the conflict.

Tuesday marks the anniversary of Turkey and Russia agreeing to establish a demilitarized zone around Idlib – including neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo – to keep Syrian attacks away.

But on April 30, Syrian forces, backed by the Russian Air Force, began shelling Idlib and rebel areas in Hama.

In the four months since, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed and more than 400,000 displaced in and around the demilitarized zone of Idlib, according to the UN.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that up to three million Syrian refugees could return to a “safe area” planned for northern Syria if it were expanded from the Turkish border to Deir Ezzor and Raqqa.

“This meeting removed the obstacles to forming a constitutional committee”, Erdogan told a news conference in Ankara after talks with his Russian and Russian counterparts, Vladimir Putin, and Hassan Rouhani, aiming to reach a permanent truce in Syria.

Erdogan also said support for militant groups “on the pretext of fighting” the Islamic State was unacceptable, adding that the real danger in Syria was the YPG.

For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that his country has laid with Turkey and Iran the basis of a permanent solution in Syria.

This came in a speech delivered by Putin at the opening of the tripartite summit on Syria, with his Turkish counterparts Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian Hassan Rouhani, in the Turkish capital Ankara, according to the official Anatolia news agency.

Putin stressed that the Astana process on Syria, with the assurance of Russia, Turkey and Iran, is the most effective mechanism that contributes to the process of finding a solution in Syria.

The Russian president commended the stabilization of Syrian territory through joint efforts and the low level of violence.

Putin expressed concern about the situation in the de-escalation zone in the province of Idlib (northwest) and northeastern Syria.

He stressed the need to solve security problems east of the Euphrates River based on the principle of protecting the territorial integrity of Syria.

He also cited a verse from the Quran in his speech on the crisis between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and the need to organize dialogue between the conflicting parties.

The Russian president said that what is happening in Yemen is a humanitarian disaster that should be solved only through dialogue, and called on the parties to the Yemeni conflict to take the Astana platform as a model to bring them around the same table, and Putin cited verses from the Quran saying: “Here I want to remember some verses from the Quran: “And hold fast to the rope of God all, and do not disperse, and remember the grace of God upon you, when you were enemies, god brought back your hearts back to towards each other, becoming by his grace brothers again”.

For his part, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said it was necessary for the international community to address the unilateral measures of the “Zionist entity” in encroaching on Syria and other countries in the region, which endanger peace and international security.

In his speech to the Turkish-Russian-Iranian summit in Ankara, President Rouhani reaffirmed the common principles in Syrian affairs, stressing the preservation of Syrian territorial integrity, respect for national sovereignty, independence of Syria, non-interference in the internal affairs of this country, And security and calm to Syria, according to the Iranian news agency Fars.

He said that the Syrian and other similar crises in the region should be settled by peaceful means and by their people.

Rouhani said the war against terrorism, especially ISIS, Al Qaeda and its affiliates, must continue in order to eliminate it completely in Syria.

Rouhani said the reactivation of the 1998 Adana agreement between Syria and Turkey could be a good model for resolving both ides’s concerns and the beginning of the end of a bitter period.

The illegal presence of US forces on Syrian territory jeopardizes the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Syria as an independent member state of the United Nations.

This is the fifth tripartite summit of Putin, Erdogan and Rouhani.

The three regional powers are the “guarantors” of the Astana peace process launched in Kazakhstan in January 2017 to end the Syrian war and aim to complete UN-led efforts to resolve the conflict.

Tuesday marks the anniversary of Turkey and Russia agreeing to establish a demilitarized zone around Idlib – including neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo – to keep Syrian attacks away.

But on April 30, Syrian forces, backed by the Russian Air Force, began shelling Idlib and rebel areas in Hama.

In the four months since, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed and more than 400,000 displaced in and around the demilitarized zone of Idlib, according to the UN.