Thursday, December 03, 2015

Lavrov after meeting with Turkish FM: ‘We haven’t heard anything new‘

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he heard nothing new from his Turkish counterpart regarding Ankara’s position on the downing of Russia’s bomber in Syria after their meeting on Thursday.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of a conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Belgrade.

“We met with the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry on his insistent request, we heard nothing new. The Turkish foreign minister confirmed the approaches publicly expressed by Turkey’s president and prime minister. We have repeated our position,” Lavrov said.

This was the first time the top diplomats have met since Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber near the Syrian-Turkish border last week .... https://www.rt.com