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Andrei Nesterenko: â€œFirst meeting of Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council scheduled to be held within Medvedevâ€™s visit to Ankaraâ€

15 January 2010 11:34 (UTC +04:00)

Moscow. Roman Aghayev â€“ APA. â€œTurkish Prime Minister had useful talks with his Russian counterpart during the visit to Moscow. They made principal decision to create new mechanism for Russia-Turkey high-level consultations. This mechanism should be a high-level Cooperation Councilâ€, said the director of information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko at a press conference, APA Moscow correspondent reports. He said first meeting of the Cooperation Council was scheduled to be held during the Russian President Dmitriy Medvedevâ€™s visit to Moscow this year on the occasion of 90th anniversary of the Russia-Turkey diplomatic relations. The foreign ministry official said the sides also discussed the current state of economic-trade relations, topical international and regional problems, prospects of a new architecture of the European security, situation in the South Caucasus as against the background of the normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations, Middle East peace, as well as BSECO cooperation. â€œThe talks focused attention on joint energy projects â€“ South Stream and Blue Stream-2 gas pipelines, Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline and construction of nuclear power station in Turkey. Turkish Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz and Russian Vice Prime Minister Igor Sechin signed a declaration about cooperation on the construction of nuclear power station in Turkeyâ€.