YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS. The world powers that met in Vienna for landmark talks aimed at ending the war in Syria could meet next in New York in mid-December, diplomats here said, as long as the latest tensions between Russia and Turkey can be calmed. “Armenpress” reports the aforesaid citing The New York Times.

“We have not seen this kind of momentum around the diplomatic and political track in a very long time, and arguably ever,” Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, said at a news conference on December 1. She would not confirm if the meeting would take place in New York, saying only that the United States wanted the next round of talks to take place in December and that it was “open to a number of different venues, one of which is New York.”

If the talks can take place, diplomats said, they will send an important signal that tensions between Russia and Turkey have not entirely quashed the newfound momentum.

Several hurdles remain. The world powers that have agreed to talk have not yet agreed on the future of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. There is also the question of which Syrian opposition groups can be part of the peace process.