“The foreign minister is giving constant information on all of his meetings to the president”, Peskov said.
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Lavov also commented on Turkey’s that “Russian citizens are involved in the purchase of oil from IS” to say it was odd they came only after Russia presented its claims that the Turkish president and his family are involved in this illegal trade.
Joint energy and transport projects, realized by Azerbaijan and Turkey, are of great significance forboth countries, their peoples, the region and theworld in general, said Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
In June 2015, Gazprom secured permission from Turkey to carry out engineering surveys for the offshore section of the Turkish Stream and planned to conduct investigations within the exclusive economic zone and territorial waters of Turkey.
Two Turkish F-16 jets shot down a Russian plane on November 24 which Ankara said violated its airspace.
“Nobody can blame Turkey for this or wait for any apology”.
“Then, it is necessary for all [involved] countries to conduct the fight only against Daesh in coordination and within the knowledge of each other”.
Mr Davutoglu again insisted Turkey did not know the nationality of the plane when it brought it down inside Turkish air space.
He recalled Ankara’s support for Moscow after the US and European Union imposed sanctions on Russian Federation for its role in the conflict in Ukraine.
“Those who believe that economic sanctions against an honourable nation like Turkey can bring it to its knees will be mistaken”, Davutoglu said.
Mr Davutoglu said the sanctions would be detrimental to both sides.
The meeting between Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and Turkey’s Mevlut Cavusoglu took place on the sidelines of the gathering of the ministerial council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Belgrade.
“We must leave all arguments and disagreements behind and make one powerful fist, a single anti-terror front, which would work on the basis of global law under the aegis of the United Nations”, Mr Putin said in his annual state-of-the-nation address.
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This was the latest move by Turkey’s leaders, who are in an effort to diversify energy supplies as ties with its largest natural gas provider Russia have tumbled following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey.
