Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday proposed to his Russian counterpart to expand the scope of Ukraine’s grain export corridor to other products, in a telephone conversation in which Putin insisted on the removal of the blockades on Russian products.
According to a statement from the Turkish Presidency, quoted by the Anadolu and EFE news agencies, Erdogan proposed to Vladimir Putin to expand the functions of the Ukrainian grain export corridor, to also gradually include other food products, as well as other raw materials. . .
In the same telephone conversation, the Russian president insisted on the need for full compliance with the grain export agreement from Ukrainian ports and the removal of blockades on the supply of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers, the Kremlin reported.
None of the presidencies revealed Putin’s position on the proposal made to him by the Turkish president during the telephone conversation.
Putin and Erdogan discussed the implementation of the Istanbul agreements of July 22, which were extended for another 120 days on November 19, on the condition that the export of Russian products, hampered by sanctions, is also facilitated.
The two presidents also discussed bilateral cooperation and stressed the importance of joint energy projects, mainly in the gas industry.
According to the Kremlin, Putin took advantage of the recent meeting between Erdogan and the president of the Russian state company Gazprom, Alexei Miller, on Friday, in Istanbul, to exchange points of view on the Russian gas distribution center that he wants to establish in Turkey.
The two heads of state also addressed the situation in northern Syria, given the threat of a possible Turkish land operation in that area of the Arab country.
Erdogan has reiterated in recent weeks that Turkey intends to launch a ground offensive in Syria to expel the Kurdish YPG militias from the border, which he considers a subsidiary of the Kurdish armed group PKK, active on Turkish soil.
Turkey has demanded that Russia respect the 2019 Russian-Turkish Sochi agreement, in which Moscow took responsibility for “cleaning” the area of ”terrorists”.
Source: TSF
