Erdogan asks Putin to meet with Zelensky in Turkey

2022-08-06 13:32:42Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Erdogan asks Putin to meet with Zelensky in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Ergogan has asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to meet with Zelensky in Turkey.

The proposal comes within the framework of Turkey's mediation to establish regional peace, writes Anadolu Agency in its Twitter post.

"The Turkish president says he told his Russian counterpart to hold a meeting with the Ukrainian president in Turkey to contribute to regional peace."

The proposal came during the meeting of the two leaders in Sochi, a Russian city.

Yesterday after more than four hours of closed-door discussions in Sochi, the two leaders agreed that Turkey should pay Russia in the Russian ruble currency for part of the Russian gas supplied to Ankara.

"In the process of negotiations, the presidents agreed that they would start paying in rubles for partial gas supplies," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters after the meeting.

Novak also said that the two presidents reached an agreement on the creation of a financial banking bloc "to enable commercial companies, Russian citizens, to pay during tourist trips and exchange money."

Putin and Erdogan agreed to hold the next meeting of the Russian-Turkish High Level Cooperation Council in Turkey.

Erdogan has emerged as an important mediator between Ukraine and Russia, which is seeking ways out of the economic and political isolation imposed by the West over its occupation of Ukraine.

Turkey, a NATO member and longtime EU applicant, brokered a deal between the two warring countries to urgently resume shipments of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea.


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