Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated yesterday that his nation doesn’t recognise Russia’s violation of “Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Anadolu reported.
In a telephone name with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Erdogan highlighted the significance of reaching an answer to the dispute between the 2 international locations on the premise of the Minsk agreements.
Erdogan reiterated in the course of the name, in response to an official assertion, that Turkiye stands able to do its half for de-escalation of Russia-Ukraine rigidity and protect the peace.
“President Erdogan famous that he want to welcome Russian President Putin in Turkiye for the Excessive-Degree Cooperation Council Assembly as quickly as doable, as had been agreed upon throughout his go to to Sochi in September,” the assertion stated.
The Turkish president emphasised the “nice significance” that he hooked up to his shut dialogue with Putin which “yielded beneficial outcomes,” including that he was decided to take care of this method.
Erdogan: ‘Turkey cannot abandon ties with Russia or Ukraine’
Erdogan additionally instructed Putin that not one of the sides would profit from the dispute changing into extra difficult, or worse, turning right into a navy confrontation.
“President Erdogan said that Turkiye, on this spirit, hooked up significance to the continuation of diplomatic talks and that it, in the present day as properly, stood able to do its half for the de-escalation of rigidity and the preservation of peace,” the assertion stated.Between September 2014 and February 2015, Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany, collectively generally known as the Normandy Quartet, signed the Minsk Protocol, which successfully halted troop advances and drastically lowered tensions.
Nevertheless, Anadolu stated, the agreements couldn’t be carried out, and the confrontations devolved into trench warfare.
On Monday, Putin announced Russian recognition of two japanese Ukrainian breakaway areas as “impartial” states, adopted rapidly by an order to ship Russian forces there to “preserve peace”.
The US and different Western powers condemned the transfer and imposed new sanctions on Russia.
