ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul on Saturday (Apr 4) for talks on vitality and navigation safety and efforts to finish the warfare with Russia, the Turkish presidency stated.
The go to got here a day after Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accused Kyiv of making an attempt to focus on the gasoline pipeline between Russia and Turkey supplying a number of European international locations.
Erdogan “confused the significance that Turkey attaches to the protection of navigation within the Black Sea and the essential nature of the safety of vitality provide,” his workplace stated. The 2 leaders additionally mentioned relations between the international locations, “peace efforts within the Russia-Ukraine battle, and regional and worldwide developments,” it added.
ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ON AGENDA
Zelenskyy stated they’d mentioned “steps to implement joint initiatives in growing gasoline infrastructure, in addition to alternatives for joint improvement of gasoline fields.”
The assembly was held on the Dolmabahce Palace on the shores of the Bosphorus, which additionally hosted a number of rounds of talks between Moscow and Kyiv previously, with a heavy police presence across the venue.
Zelenskyy was additionally as a consequence of meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the non secular chief of most Christian Orthodox church buildings, every week earlier than the Orthodox Easter, celebrated in Ukraine and Russia on Apr 12.
