Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif speak while entering a hall during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Natalia Kolesnikova

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, Iran and Turkey have started the process of finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said at a meeting of the three countries’ foreign ministers in Moscow on Tuesday.

At a separate meeting in Moscow of defense ministers from the same three countries, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan praised military co-operation between Ankara and Moscow in Syria.