Russia wants to fully restore ties with Turkey - Putin

  10 August 2016    Read: 1009
Russia wants to fully restore ties with Turkey - Putin
Russia wants to fully restore ties with Turkey, to which end it is drafting a 2016-2019 mid-term program of cooperation in areas including the economy and science, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Aug. 9, Sputnik International reported.
“As for restoring our relations to their full extent: do we want that? Yes we do, and we will be doing just that,” Putin told reporters. “After certain restrictions had been imposed in our relations, certain transformations have taken place since, and we will need to keep them in mind as we restore our trade and economic cooperation.”

In this regard, he said the sides decided to draft a mid-term program economic, technical and scientific cooperation for the next three years.

“We hope to be able to come up with it within a week,” Putin stressed after the talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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