(Finance) – The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet the Russian president Vladimir Putin in Sochi on August 5th. This was announced by the presidency of Ankara. Meanwhile, Erdogan has invited Moscow and Kiev to put into practice the agreement found in Istanbul on safe corridors in the Black Sea for the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.
The pact, signed under the supervision of the United Nations of which Ankara is also a part, “will alleviate the global food crisis”, the Turkish president said during an interview with Turkish state TV TRT in which he stated that the Russian bombing of the port of Odessa, less than 24 hours after the signature of the pact on wheat, has “saddened” Turkey. Last Saturday, just 12 hours, the signing of the agreement with Kiev on grain exports from the southern ports ofUkraineRussia had bombed Odessa with cruise missiles. Scenario that was repeated today: the Russian forces in fact hit the port city in southern Ukraine once again, in the early hours of this morning.
The Turkish president also announced that Turkey will increase the import of gas And Petroleum fromIran. Ankara’s increase in imports into the Iranian energy sector was decided during Erdogan’s recent visit to Tehran during which the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi announced the goal of achieving an economic exchange between the two countries of 30 billion dollars in 2022.