Turkish Prezident Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again proposed the mediatory role of Turkey in the negotiations with Russia. He said this at a briefing after the talks, the UNN correspondent reports.
The Turkish president noted that his visit came at a sensitive time for Ukraine. He stressed that Turkey continues to support Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, including Crimea.
"As I said earlier, Turkey is ready to do everything possible to end the crisis of the two neighboring ... countries. In today's talks, I once again stressed that we would be happy to host a summit at the leadership level or talks at the technical level in Turkey, because Turkey acts with the logic of thinking how to lower the temperature instead of fanning the flames," Erdogan said.
He also noted the importance of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in resolving the conflict.
"We sincerely believe that the crisis will be resolved by peaceful and diplomatic methods within the framework of the Minsk agreements on the principles of Ukraine's territorial integrity and international law," the Turkish president added.
The Ukrainian president thanked his Turkish colleague for supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state and active participation in the "Crimean platform."
"Separately, I want to thank President Erdogan for the initiative to become a mediator between Ukraine and Russia on the way to end the war. For peace in Ukraine, we are ready to do our best on all platforms and in all formats. It does not matter where exactly one can put an end to the war, what is important is that everyone is sincerely ready for this," he added.
We shall remind you that on January 19, the official representative of the Turkish President Ibrahim Kalin said that Ankara was ready to participate in the de-escalation of relations between Kiev and Moscow. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts to Turkey to "settle their differences." Kalin explained the proposal by saying that Turkey is both "a friendly country of both Russia and Ukraine" and a member of NATO.
