Meeting with President of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye Numan Kurtulmus

On the Russian side, the meeting was attended
by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr President,
I am delighted to see you. Welcome to Russia. I know that you have a busy programme here.
We are very pleased that our relations with the Republic of Türkiye are expanding across the board, including parliamentary ties.
Just recently, President of Türkiye Recep
Tayyip Erdogan and I met in Astana, and we will see each other again at the BRICS summit in Kazan in October where we are scheduled to have a bilateral meeting.
I would like to note that cooperation between
Türkiye and Russia is making active progress along almost every avenue,
including economic ties, social projects, and interaction between the foreign
ministries. We are good neighbours overall, working for the benefit of our nations,
and we are largely succeeding.
There are specific issues that we need to review. We will briefly exchange views on all of them.
Welcome again.
President of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye Numan Kurtulmus (retranslated): First of all, I would like to express my gratitude for your warm
welcome and your kind hospitality. I would like to convey the sincere greetings
and best wishes from our President, Mr Erdogan.
Today is the third day of our visit. Our programme
is very rich indeed. I met with Ms Matviyenko; we had a very extensive
discussion on bilateral relations. I had the honour to speak at the assembly
and meet with members of both houses [of the Russian parliament]. I also had
the opportunity to visit the Diplomatic Academy, where I met with young people.
I also visited the Moscow Cathedral Mosque and met
with representatives of the clergy. I spoke at a ceremony at the Yunus Emre
Institute.
This visit has been productive for me, and I am
taking home the fondest memories and impressions. I really do hope that my trip
to St Petersburg will be just as rewarding.
This morning, we held a meeting at the Federation
Council, where I took the opportunity to express my vision of Turkish-Russian
relations. We are now in a phase where deep ties are being forged on the basis
of a shared history and neighbourly relations, and I hope that inter-parliamentary
relations will contribute to the development of our solid relations, which grow deeper day by day within the framework of priorities outlined by our
presidents.
We are very pleased that we hold similar views on the global agenda and the deep crisis that is now raging in the Middle East.
Israel’s attack on Palestine is not merely a regional problem, not only a Palestinian problem; it is a problem of the international community. It is
gratifying that we are in agreement on this.
I would like to note with pleasure how similar
our peoples and our priorities are, and I want to say that we have never
supported the sanctions or embargoes that were introduced against the Russian
Federation. The West is using these measures to punish the Russian Federation; this
is wrong, and we have never supported this approach.
During our meetings, we discussed what steps
can be taken, and what else we can do to advance our relations.
Thank you.
I would like to thank Ms Matviyenko for her
warm and friendly invitation and for the candid dialogue we had here in Moscow.
I think that the progress we are making in inter-parliamentary relations will
help expand our relations in general.
Vladimir Putin: Thank you. Please convey my best wishes to President of Türkiye, Mr Erdogan. I am looking forward to seeing him in Kazan. Our
bilateral meeting is scheduled for October 23.
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