ANKARA (TURCHIA) (ITALPRESS) – “I am grateful to President Erdogan for today’s visit and for our interview. We appreciate Turkey’s involvement in diplomatic work and all its efforts. We discussed in detail the concrete ways to end the war reliably and dignified. Since the beginning of this year, we in Ukraine have supported every decisive step and Donald Trump’s leadership, every strong and just proposal to end this war. And only President Trump and the United States have enough power to end this war.” So on X Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Today, President Erdogan proposed dialogue formats, which I supported, and it is important for us that Turkey is ready to provide the necessary platform – he added. We are also ready to work in any other significant format that can produce results. But the most important factor in stopping bloodshed and achieving lasting peace is that we work in close coordination with all partners and that American leadership remains effective, strong and approach us to a peace that hardens and guarantees security for the people.”.
“Turkey is always ready to discuss with Russia proposals that accelerate the ceasefire” in Ukraine and open the way “to a just and lasting peace”. The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said this at the press conference in Ankara with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. Erdogan added: “We believe that it would be useful for the Istanbul process (Russia-Ukraine) to be fully implemented and to solve the serious problems that have now become acute.” Moreover, the Turkish president hoped that “all our partners who want to stop bloodshed in the region demonstrate a constructive approach to the Istanbul process.”.
The Turkish President received the Ukrainian counterpart, welcoming him to the Presidential Assembly for a work visit focused on bilateral cooperation and regional security. The Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, head of intelligence, Ibrahim Kalin, and Akif Cagatay Kilic, president of foreign policy and security. The two leaders will then participate in a working dinner and hold a joint press conference, report the Turkish media.
Yesterday the president of Ukraine announced on X that he would go to Turkey, after his visit to Spain, to reinvigorate the negotiations to put an end to the conflict with Moscow, which in recent weeks is experiencing a new escalation. “To do everything possible to approach the end of the war is the top priority of Ukraine,” said Zelesnky. Turkey hosted last July in Istanbul Russian and Ukrainian delegations which led to an exchange of prisoners, but without outlining the end of the ongoing conflict since 2022.
PESKOV “MOSCA E’ APERTA AI NEGOZIATI”
“Moscow is open to continue negotiations. The pause that has occurred is due, in fact, to the reluctance of the Kiev regime to continue this dialogue”: said the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, speaking with journalists who asked him to comment on the words of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan, who today expressed the hope that the process of Istanbul continues.
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