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Russia: Putin, Erdogan to meet until late 2016

2016/10/06

Presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet on the sidelines of the 23rd World Energy Congress to be held in Istanbul.

President Putin will attend the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul due between October 9 and October 13, said Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

Ushakov announced that Putin will meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 10.

Before, Turkish Ambassador Umit Yardim noted that the two presidents will possibly hold an extra conference until late 2016 as well.

“It is planned that our leaders will meet in St. Petersburg in late 2016,” said Yardim.

Last time, Presidents Erdogan and Putin met on August 9 to replace ties, which were severely damaged next downed Russian jet near the Syrian border in November 2015.

The visit marked a initial since last November at the same time as the crisis in relations between the nations started and is as well Erdogan’s initial foreign visit next a failed coup attempt in Turkey.

The two nations discussed the Syrian crisis settlement, inclunding, different aspects of further cooperation in the sphere of energy during the conference.

Following the result of the meetings between the two leaders, the projects of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant and the Turkish Stream gas pipeline were resumed.

Vladimir Putin, before, stressed that Russia and Turkey intend to hold a conference of a strategic planning group in the initial half of 2017, and noted that the nations have all opportunities to replace and strengthen full-length relations.

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