High-level Russia-Turkey Cooperation Council to be held by early 2017

  10 August 2016    Read: 980
High-level Russia-Turkey Cooperation Council to be held by early 2017
The next High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council will be held by early 2017 at the latest, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov forecast, in the run-up to Tuesday’s reconciliation meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg, the next council`s location could be Moscow.

"We will organize with [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov a meeting of the High-Level Cooperation Council in early 2017 at the latest," Cavusoglu said in an interview with Turkey’s Anadolu news service.

The council is headed by the two leaders and includes both countries` ministers. The fifth and last session was held in December 2014, where a package on cooperation was signed in Putin and Erdogan’s presence in Turkey.

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