TEHRAN, March 27 (MNA) – A meeting among the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria will be held in the near future, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister said."We are getting ready [for a meeting].

I think that [it will be held] soon.

We are hoping," TASS news agency quoted as Mikhail Bogdanov saying.

"It’s a holiday season now, Ramadan.

There are many other circumstances.

Yet work continues," the senior diplomat stressed.

"We are hoping that our mediating mission directed at a very important strategic goal - the normalization of Syrian-Turkish relations - will result in our shared success," he concluded.

MNA/PR