Putin-Erdogan: meeting in St Petersburg next 9 August

9 years ago - Published in Finance, Fundamental Analysis

Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with turkish President Erdogan in St. Petersburg on August 9, as the Russian news agency Tass reported.

This is the first meeting between the two after that relations between Moscow and Ankara have been improving following the sending to Putin by Erdogan a letter of apology for the killing in November of a Russian military jet on the border between Syria and Turkey by Turkish fighter.
"We look forward to constructive negotiations. After our meeting there will be other meetings at ministerial level. We believe that the resumption of our bilateral relations should be gradual, step by step we have to thaw the trade and economic ties," Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Russian Prime Minister, has declared.

 The last meeting between Putin and Erdogan took place November 16, 2015 in Antalya on the sidelines of the G20.