“We conveyed to Turkey our intention to become a world center of natural gas,” Putin said characteristically, according to Manolis Kostidis.
With the Russian president Vladimir Putin met the Tayyip Erdogan behind closed doors in Astana, as part of the Summit of the 6th Summit of the Conference on Cooperation and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). The two leaders met in Astana to discuss bilateral ties and the war in Ukraine and Syria.
According to Russian media, at the meeting with Erdogan, Putin raised the issue of creation natural gas hub in Turkey for the supply of natural gas in Europe.
“We conveyed to Turkey our intention to become a world center of natural gas,” Putin said characteristically, according to Manolis Kostidis. This, he noted, upgrades Turkey on many levels.
“Turkey turned out to be the most reliable supply route of natural gas in Europe” commented the president of Russia.
The natural gas hub in Turkey, which Russia proposes to create, could also become a platform for shaping natural gas prices, the Russian president believes.
“It would be a platform where we could set prices at a normal market level without political overtones,” he said.
The Russian president also gloated Russian-Turkish joint projects. As he said, “Turkish Stream is working successfully, even though they tried to blow it up, supplies of Russian natural gas to Turkey are proceeding in full, according to requests, work on the (nuclear plant) of Akuyu is proceeding according to plan, it will be it is possible to fulfill the agreements and start the next power unit by the 100th anniversary of Turkey”.
“It is planned to deliver nuclear fuel to the nuclear power plant in May 2023,” the Russian president told his Turkish counterpart.
Turkey and the Russian Federation will work to deliver Russian agricultural products to countries in need, he said. Tayyip Erdogan.
President Erdoğan earlier also met with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
Addressing the summit, Erdogan recalled his role as a Moscow-Kiev mediator, saying Turkey’s goal is to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine as soon as possible, despite obstacles.
The global security architecture should be based on a fairer arrangement, the Turkish president said earlier at the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
“Humanity is passing a period where the balance of power has shifted and supply chains have been disrupted. We face serious challenges in many areas, from the economy to food security, from energy to international relations. We believe that the global security architecture must be formed on the basis of a fairer understanding,” he stressed.
Mr. Erdogan added that a just peace in Ukraine could be established through diplomacy. According to him, Turkey’s goal in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is “to maintain the momentum achieved, despite the difficulties on the ground, and to stop the bloodshed as soon as possible.”
“I have always said that a just peace can be achieved through diplomacy, and our intensive efforts to eliminate the consequences of the conflict have been recognized by the whole world. The prisoner exchange last month was a concrete achievement in this direction,” he said.
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