Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he agreed with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu to resume activity of the working group on fighting terrorism, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Lavrov made the remarks at the press conference following the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) in Sochi July 1.
“We established a bilateral working group on combating terrorism, which includes representatives of the ministry of foreign affairs and special services,” Lavrov said. “The work of this group was frozen during the last seven months, but currently we have agreed to resume it fast.”
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held phone talks June 29. The last time the two leaders spoke was November 2015 at the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey.
The relations between Russia and Turkey deteriorated after the Su-24 bomber incident.
Following the incident, Putin signed a decree on taking measures for ensuring the country's national security and special economic measures against Turkey.
Erdogan sent a letter of condolences to Putin June 27 over the death of Russian Su-24 pilot and expressed regret over the incident.
He said Turkey "shares the pain of the downed Su-24 pilot's death with his family" and "sees it as Turkey's pain".