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By Gunay Hasanova

The agenda of the upcoming meeting between Russian and Turkish Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been partially revealed.

Several documents are expected to be signed on energy issues and political aspects of the fight against terrorism during the visit of President Putin to Turkey, RIA Novosti reported referring to Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov.

Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey on October 10, where he will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart and join the World Energy Congress to be held in Istanbul.

"As far as I know, there will be an extensive program of bilateral talks, including the signing of documents. This is a wide range of issues related to energy, a number of projects which were either frozen or require further specification”, said Umakhanov.

Moreover, he noted that "any inter-state visit of the first person is very important for adding a new quality and impetus to the relations."

“As for Turkey, it is doubly important. We all know about sad pages that have been in our recent history. There is no much effort is need to hurt someone. But to restore the full-fledged trade-economic, political and humanitarian ties between our countries- it is time-consuming. Only Presidents of our countries are capable of reducing the time in order to get close to the peak of our relations we had 2-3 years ago”, Umakhanov concluded.

Putin and Erdogan last met on September 3 in China's southeastern city of Hangzhou on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies.

Relations between Turkey and Russia have deteriorated after Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft in November 2015.

However, the relations have moved to a positive phase after the August meeting of the two presidents. The visit of Erdogan marked a first since last November when the crisis in relations between the countries started and is also Erdogan’s first foreign visit after a failed coup attempt in Turkey.

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