Turkey, Iran and Russia reaffirmed their commitment to Syria’s sovereignty and pledged to cooperate on defeating terrorism in the war-torn country, the trio said in a joint statement following their latest round of Syrian peace talks. 

On Wednesday, representatives from the three countries gathered in Kazakhstan's capital, Nur-Sultan, for the 16th round of the Astana process talks sponsored by Moscow and Tehran, which back the Syrian government, and Ankara, which supports the opposition seeking to topple the regime. 

Those in attendance included the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s director general for Syria, Ambassador Selcuk Unal, Russia's special envoy on Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, and Ali Asghar Khaji, a senior official in the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Representatives from Damascus, the Syrian opposition, the United Nations, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq also took part. 

Russia, Iran and Turkey "reaffirmed their strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,” the final document reads.