2023-05-11 09:39:00
The Turkish Foreign Ministers, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, and Syrian, Faisal Mekdad, agreed on Wednesday in Moscow on the next step to follow with a view to normalizing relations between the two countries, which have been broken since 2011.
At the end of a high-level meeting in the Russian capital, the heads of Turkish diplomacy, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, and Syrian, Faisal Mekdad, as well as their Russian counterparts, Sergei Lavrov, and Iranian, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, decided to instruct their deputies “to prepare a roadmap to advance relations between Turkey and Syria in coordination with the ministries of defense and special services of the four countries”, specifies a press release from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
Participants in the quadripartite meeting, the first at the level of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and Syria since the breakdown of relations in 2011, also welcomed the depth and frankness that marked the exchanges on issues related to normalization relations between Ankara and Damascus, according to the same source.
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Speaking at the opening of this meeting, Mr. Lavrov said he was in favor of drawing up a roadmap for the normalization of relations between Turkey and Syria.
“The best outcome of our meeting today would be an agreement to appoint experts to prepare a roadmap for the normalization of relations between Syria and Turkey,” he said.
In his opinion, the document should make it possible to “clearly define the positions of the stakeholders – Syria and Turkey – on their priority issues”, including the security of the 950 kilometer common border with Turkey.
Since the beginning of last year, Ankara has started to show signs of rapprochement with Syria. In this context, several meetings were held between the heads of the intelligence services, the defense ministers and the deputy foreign ministers of the two countries.
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