MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Preparations are underway for a meeting of deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told TASS on Tuesday.

"We are preparing [the meeting]," the senior Russian diplomat said, commenting on the information about the meeting scheduled for March 15-16.

"Let us not hurry up events. When we hold it, then we will tell you. There is the hope," he said.