With a speech by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan the three-day Diplomatic Forum in Antalya of southern Turkey. The Turkish diplomat confirmed that the war in Gaza was at the center of the discussions in the dozens of panels organized with representatives from 148 countries. “We are leaving Antalya with new views, new ideas and new tasks,” Fidan said and emphasized the need for diplomacy to resolve today’s crises.

The cessation of continued oppression in Gauze and violence against the Palestinian people was at the center of the forum, Fidan said, revealing that: “there is a very serious desire and effort to achieve a ceasefire before Ramadan” which begins at the end of the week.

“The international community has now set aside established practices. We have individual friends (…) Giving aid to Gaza, waiting for someone’s permission, now means the slow and silent death of more than two million people,” Hakan Fidan said.

Dialogue for a ceasefire in Ukraine as well

“The double standards and standards of some international actors on different issues and their approaches that ignore international law were exposed by the forum participants,” the Turkish foreign minister said, confirming that he is scheduled to travel to the US next week at the invitation of the foreign minister. of, Anthony Blinken, within the framework of the strategic mechanism in force between the two countries, following Blinken’s invitation. “We will take stock of our relationship with the US on a wide range of issues.”

On his meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Antalya and the discussions regarding the war in Ukraine, Hakan Fidan said that both sides seem to have reached their limits. “Now is the time to start the dialogue on the ceasefire” he added, but without recognizing the occupation.

“We believe it is time to separate the issue of recognition of occupation and sovereignty from the issue of a ceasefire, because really in the middle of Europe in the 21st century the loss of life and the injury of people, the destruction of infrastructure and the building of an entire country , it is not a reality we can tolerate” he said characteristically.

Source: DW