NUR-SULTAN, August 2. /TASS/. The 14th international meeting on the settlement in Syria will be held in October this year in Kazakhstan’s capital, according to a joint statement of Russia, Iran and Turkey after a round of consultations on Syria in Nur-Sultan on Friday.

"We decided to hold the next international meeting on Syria in the Astana format in Nur-Sultan in October 2019," according to the document read out by Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vasilenko.

Earlier on Friday, Asia and Africa Department Director at the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Yerzhan Mukash told reporters that the next international meeting on resolving the situation in Syria may take place in Kazakhstan in October.

"I think the next round will take place sometime in October," Mukash replied to a relevant question.

The 13th international high-level meeting on Syria takes place in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan on August 1-2. The event involves representatives of the guarantor countries (Russia, Iran and Turkey), the Syrian government and the armed opposition. High-ranking officials from the United Nations and Jordan are present at the meeting as observers. Besides, Lebanon and Iraq are participating in the Nur-Sultan talks as observers for the first time.