Putin and Erdogan will discuss in Baku the fate of "the Turkish stream"
The presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on telephone on Monday on the possibility of the meeting in Baku, the official website of the Kremlin, with reference to Yury Ushakov assistant of the Russian presidential. They talked on various aspects of bilateral cooperation, implementation of joint energy projects.
The parties have agreed today to work out the possible meeting of Putin and Erdogan in Baku within the framework of the participation of the two leaders at the opening ceremony of the European Games, Ushakov said.
Moscow and Ankara have agreed earlier on the gas pipeline project "Turkish Stream" through the bottom of the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey's border with Europe. However, after Putin's statements in Yerevan on the Armenian Genocide, Ankara said it does not want to implement this project. -02D-
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Official Baku condemned and rejected the allegations made in the statement by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday issued a statement on escalating crackdown on Azerbaijani civil society and media, urging authorities in Baku to release all those unjustly detained, cease its crackdown, and fulfill the commitments, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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A charter flight operated by Enter Air departed from Yerevan to Baku on Wednesday evening, according to Armenian media citing data from Flightradar24. At Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport, Sputnik Armenia reported that this was a charter flight.
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On Wednesday, a group of famous footballers arrived in Baku. Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets, and Jordi Alba visited several public and cultural sites in the capital and took part in a meeting with football fans at the Crystal Hall.
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