[Regnum] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a meeting in Moscow with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan , the press service of the Russian military department reported on September 1 in its Telegram channel.
SHOIGU: RUSSIA WILL EXTEND THE GRAIN DEAL IF ALL PROMISES ARE KEPT
“Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during a meeting in Moscow with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, discussed a grain deal and joint work in Syria,” the statement said.
According to Shoigu, Moscow has made every effort to maintain the grain deal, it was stopped through no fault of Russia. However, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted, if the West fulfills everything that was promised to Russia, then the deal will be extended.
“But it turned out that this is more difficult to do than to build new corridors, new land routes,” he added.
The Russian minister also stressed that Moscow plans to continue strategic bilateral cooperation with Turkey to solve a variety of tasks. “I mean cases related to work in Syria,” he said.
As reported by IA Regnum, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov confirmed earlier that the talks between the presidents of Russia and Turkey will take place on September 4 in Sochi. The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, citing sources, wrote the day before that Putin and Erdogan could discuss a new formula for a grain deal at the talks.
Pavel Seleznev, professor of the Department of Political Science at the Financial University under the Government, in an interview with IA Regnum , admitted that if the grain deal is resumed, this will mean that the West, through Erdogan, has conveyed such conditions that Moscow considered acceptable.
Aleksey Zubets, director of the Institute for Socio-Economic Research of the Financial University under the government , noted that during the negotiations between Putin and Erdogan, the grain deal between Russia and Turkey can be discussed in two versions. The first is Russian food, and the second is Ukrainian. And it is quite possible that these two directions of deliveries will be discussed separately.
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Shoigu discusses grain deal and situation in Syria with Turkish Foreign Minister
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu discussed with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan a grain deal and partnership in Syria. This was reported on September 1 to journalists in the defense department.
The meeting of the two ministers took place in Moscow. Shoigu congratulated Fidan on his appointment as foreign minister and noted that during the time he was in charge of the Turkish security service, a lot of necessary and useful things were done for Russia, Turkey and the whole world.
The head of the Defense Ministry stressed that Russia has made every effort to maintain the grain deal. The agreement, initiated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was stopped through no fault of Moscow.
“Today is not our fault, but it has been stopped. And here we can only say one thing, that if everything that was promised to Russia is fulfilled, then the deal will be extended, ” Shoigu said.
He added that Russia plans to continue strategic bilateral cooperation with Turkey to solve a variety of tasks. This is work on Syria, the establishment of relations between Ankara and Damascus with the participation of Russia and Iran.
As IA Regnum reported, on August 31, talks were held in Moscow between Fidan and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Turkish minister said that the meeting was a preparation for negotiations between the leaders of the two countries, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.