“But instead, if we make emotional statements like this, that wouldn’t be right”. “This is the point of our meeting”, Hollande said, stressing the urgency to reach consensus on forming a broad global coalition.
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The West has accused Moscow of targeting mostly Western-backed rebel groups fighting Assad.
A vote is expected to be held early next week and MPs look set to approve the move, meaning the first British air strikes on Syria could come within days. “We believe that we would better create a single, united coalition as it would be easier, simpler and more efficient to coordinate our work that way”.
Cavusoglu said after talks Thursday with breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci that “we don’t want this incident to affect our relations with Russian Federation”.
“We agreed on a very important issue: To strike the terrorists only, Daesh and the jihadi groups only, and not to strike the forces and the groups that are fighting against the terrorists”, Hollande said after the meeting, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym.
One of Russia’s flagship energy projects, the proposed Turkish Stream pipeline, would allow Russian Federation to export gas to the European Union through Turkey and reduce its reliance on transit through Ukraine.
Speaking after talks with French president Francois Hollande, Putin voiced his anger with Turkey.
While Russian President Vladimir Putin complained that Turkey still hadn’t apologized for downing the plane or given assurances that “the culprits of this crime” will be punished, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in no mood to apologize.
The Russian leader said, under the cooperation already established with the US-led coalition, Russia’s military had passed on details of the flight plan of the jet that was shot down this week. “Why did we give this information to the Americans if they did not pass it along to the rest of the coalition?”
“We will exchange information about whom to hit and whom not to hit”, Mr Hollande added.
Turkish passengers and trucks have started to face hurdles at Russia’s customs after the downing of the Russian jet by Turkish F-16s near the Syrian border on November 24, with Turkish trucks now being subjected to “full examination”, according to Turkish officials.
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His co-pilot was killed by gunfire as he parachuted from the burning plane. A post on the Russian Defense Ministry’s Facebook page showed an S-400 missile system being unloaded from a Russian cargo plane. Russia’s air force conducted “massive airstrikes” and the Syrian army had provided artillery support, giving full control of the mountainous area in north Latakia governorate to Syrian troops, he said, claiming that Russian Federation now controls all ISIS supply routes in north Syria.
