This Sunday Turkey expressed its satisfaction with the agreement reached between Moscow and Kiev to start negotiations on Belarusian territory and expressed its hope that they will lead to a lasting ceasefire.
This was stated by the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, in an interview on the CNNTürk network, stressing that today he had telephone conversations with both his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and his Ukrainian colleague, Dmitro Kuleba.
“If it is possible to hold the talks not in Minsk or in the city of Gomel, but directly on the Ukraine-Belarus border, on the Belarusian side, it will be done tomorrow,” Çavusoglu said, according to which “it has already been reported. even about who will make up the delegations.”
“We will continue with the contacts, but today we are extremely happy that Russia and Ukraine have decided to negotiate tomorrow,” said the minister, hinting that he had insisted his Ukrainian colleague accept the Russian proposal.
“Kuleba told me today that he has taken into account our advice from yesterday. What we had advised is that the place is not that important,” added Çavusoglu.
“We said: ‘We understand that you don’t want to go to Belarus, we know why, but the important thing is to lay the foundations for a ceasefire; don’t appear as a country that refuses to negotiate and go there’. After Belarus gave guarantees (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky decided to go,” the Turkish minister described the conversation with Kuleba.
On the other hand, Çavusoglu pointed out that, so far, Ankara has managed to evacuate 1,450 Turkish citizens from Ukraine in two days, but there are another 6,600 people in the country waiting to return to Turkey.
As the airspace is closed, the evacuation is carried out by bus through Romania, the route through which some 870 Turks left Ukraine yesterday while another 580 are expected to arrive at the border today.(I)
Source: Eluniverso
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