Obama and Putin met briefly on the sidelines of global climate talks outside Paris.
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He also called on Russians to continue visiting Turkey – a major destination for Russian tourists.
“Russia has not given permission to Turkish trucks for entry or transit passage for the past four days”, Fatih Sener, managing director of Turkey’s International Shippers Association (UND) said in an interview.
Deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich said the fruit and vegetable ban could be deferred for “several weeks” to allow Russian firms to find new suppliers and curb price rises. “For new contracts [signed after January 1, 2016], there won’t be such freedom and a special permit will need to be applied for from the government”, Shuvalov told Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a Cabinet meeting.
The body of the pilot who died was flown back to Russian Federation from Turkey on Monday after the Turkish authorities took possession of it from an unknown group.
After the incident, Russia deployed long-range S-400 air defense missile systems to a Russian air base in Syria just 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the border with Turkey to help protect Russian warplanes, and the Russian military warned it would shoot down any aerial target that would pose a potential threat to its planes. One Russian serviceman was also killed trying to rescue the pilot.
Almost a week after Turkish fighters shot down a Russian bomber that crossed into their country’s airspace for a few seconds, resulting in the death of one of its pilots, the tension between the two countries appears to be increasing.
Local reports said Peshkov will be buried Wednesday after his body arrives in his hometown Lipetsk, an industrial city in central Russian Federation.
Moscow has steadfastly maintained its jet was over Syria when it was downed.
Although there are a lot of accusations flying, and a lot of speculation, an analysis by scientists at Belgium’s KU Leuven University, using simple Newtonian physics to examine the incident, concluded both sides lied about the first downing of a Russian warplane by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces since 1952 during the Korean War.
“We have every reason to believe that a decision to shoot down our plane was prompted by a desire to ensure security of that oil to the territory of Turkey and on to sea ports for loading into tankers”, he said.
“No Turkish prime minister or president will apologize… because of doing our duty”, Davutoglu said after a meeting Monday with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, according to the AP.
On Monday, Mr Davutoglu said again that there would be no apology for the downing of the plane.
“We hope that Russian Federation will reconsider these reactions, these measures, which will be against our interests both”, he told journalists during a visit to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters in Brussels.
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Moscow’s surprise intervention in the four-year-old Syrian civil war in September wrong-footed the West and put Turkey, which shares a long border with Syria, directly at odds with Russian support for the Assad regime there.
