ASTANA. March 13 (Interfax) - Egypt has not been invited to join the intra-Syrian meeting in Astana, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said.
"I have no information regarding Egypt [...], regarding an invitation," Abdrakhmanov told reporters in Astana on Monday.
The guarantor countries make decisions on every organizational aspect, the composition of participating parties, and the format of the Astana meeting, he said.
A source from one of the delegations had told Interfax earlier that Egypt might join the Syria talks in Astana as an observer.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in late December 2016 that Russia was ready to invite Egypt to join the ceasefire deal for Syria.