“The Russian leadership has repeatedly explained in detail the reasons for the volatile situation in the international markets for blue fuel, primarily due to the influence of the short-sighted energy policy of a number of Western countries on them.
An additional destabilizing factor was the terrorist attacks on critical gas transportation infrastructure facilities — the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines,” the diplomat said.
Against this background, the joint Russian-Turkish initiative should be attractive to many states, he stressed.