Turkish FM to visit Moscow next week
By Kamila Aliyeva
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu may pay an official visit to Moscow next week, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Leonid Slutsky said.
“We expect to hold consultation with Mevlut Cavusoglu, whom we know very well as a former President of the PACE,” he said at a meeting of the Committee on discussion of the Russian-Turkish treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Cases and Extradition on February 6, RIA Novosti reported.
Slutsky said the sides will have an opportunity to exchange views on this important issue very soon in case the FM visits Moscow.
President Putin submitted the agreement between the Russian Federation and Turkey on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Cases and Extradition, signed in Ankara on December 1, 2014, to the State Duma for ratification in 2015.
Earlier it was reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to visit Russia in early spring and attend the meeting of the Russian-Turkish High-Level Cooperation Council. The previous meeting of the Council was held in December 2014.
In late 2015, relations between Russia and NATO member Turkey deteriorated after Turkish forces downed a Russian warplane and Moscow imposed economic restrictions against Turkey.
In June 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a formal apology to the leader of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, which was accepted. Russia and Turkey have begun the process of restoration of bilateral relations.
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