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Moscow, Ankara unclear on time of future contacts

Other News Materials 20 October 2016 17:46 (UTC +04:00)
Moscow and Ankara are actively discussing the schedule of upcoming Russian-Turkish contacts
Moscow, Ankara unclear on time of future contacts

Moscow and Ankara are actively discussing the schedule of upcoming Russian-Turkish contacts, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Meshkov said, RIA Novosti reported.

“We are actively discussing the schedule of the upcoming Russian-Turkish contacts, and it will be arranged purely from the perspective of pragmatic interests of the Russian-Turkish relations,” Meshkov told Russian reporters in the Italian city of Verona within the 5th Eurasian Forum.

The deputy minister noted that he is not ready to talk about a specific date of the Russian-Turkish contacts yet, but noted with satisfaction the resumption of the contact mechanism, which existed before the crisis.

The relations between Moscow and Ankara deteriorated sharply in late 2015 when Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber with two pilots on board. In June 2016, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter of condolences to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the death of a Su-24 pilot and expressed regret over the incident. After that, the two countries’ relations began to improve.

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