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Politcial issues including the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh that has remained unresolved for many years will be on the agenda of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Russia, due to begin Tuesday. Discussions will also center on the October 2009 agreement signed in Zurich by Turkey and Armenia, following decades of hostility, to forge diplomatic relations and reopen their shared border, Turkey’s Haberturk newspaper reported. Erdogan’s visit to Moscow reportedly has three objectives: establishing a high-level bilateral council on strategic cooperation; giving an incentive to the OSCE Minsk Group brokering settlement to the Garabagh conflict, and facilitating resolution of the Cyprus problem.
The Turkish government has said in a statement that Turkish and Russian officials will discuss ways of developing multi-faceted partnership on the basis of good neighborhood relations. The parties will mull regional issues and economic challenges facing the two countries.
According to CNN Turk TV channel, cooperation on nuclear energy will be high on the agenda as well.
Also, supplies of Russian gas to Turkey will be tabled in Moscow. The two countries’ officials will discuss such energy projects as construction of the Blue Stream 2 and South Stream gas pipelines, as well as the planned Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline linking Turkey's Black Sea and Mediterranean coasts, in which Russian energy majors Transneft and Rosneft are seeking a 50 percent share. Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are reportedly expected to discuss the future Nabucco gas pipeline project via Turkey, which will allow European countries to diversify their energy supplies. Ankara is seeking Moscow’s involvement in the project on building the pipeline, which will bypass Russia.*