The Turkish announcement said that the date of the talks and the level of the negotiators will be based on the results of the visit of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Paris in just under two weeks.

The London-based Al-Hayyat newspaper reports that the indirect talks that renewed Tuesday in Istanbul, dealt with issues that the sides had already agreed upon in the past, to pave the way for the direct negotiations.

In the next round, the final round of the indirect talks, the Israelis and Syrians, with Turkish mediation, are to discuss the main points of a peace agreement: an Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 lines, normalization of relations between Damascus and Jerusalem, and security and water arrangements.

Sources in Ankara added that Israel and Syria agreed that only Turkey would serve as mediator.

Reported by Radio Israel Reka