“Of course, it is not easy to reach a compromise when there is a war going on, when there are civilians who are being killed, but we would like to say that progress is being made,” said the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, speaking from the Turkish province of Antalya. “We see that the parties are close to an agreement.”
Cavusoglu visited Russia and Ukraine this week, since Turkey maintains close ties with both countries and tries to position itself as a mediator; Ankara received the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine in Antalya last week.
Cavusoglu noted that Turkey was in contact with the negotiating teams of the two states, but refused to divulge details of the talks because “we play an honest mediator and facilitator role,” he said.
In an interview with the Hurriyet daily, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin indicated that the parties were negotiating six points: the neutrality of Ukraine, disarmament and security guarantees, the so-called “denazification”, the removal of obstacles to the use of the Russian language in Ukraine, the situation in the breakaway region of Donbas and the Crimean peninsulaannexed by Russia in 2014.
the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas repeatedly called for “meaningful” talks to reach a peace deal to end the invasion.
“This is the time to meet, to talk, the time to renew territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine,” he said in his latest video posted on social media on Saturday.
Turkey said it was ready to host a meeting between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We work night and day for peace,” Cavusoglu said on Sunday.
Source: Ambito
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