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Turkey will host the first
high-level
diplomatic effort to stop Russia's invasion of
Ukraine.
A luxury resort in the southern city of Antalya, a summer resort for thousands of Russian and Ukrainian tourists, will be the scene of a three-way meeting sponsored by Ankara on Thursday.
This was announced on Monday by the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Çavusoglu.
"Both ministers wanted me to participate," justified the politician, to explain the peculiar format of the meeting.
The Antalya Diplomacy Forum is an annual meeting recently created to bring together all kinds of personalities linked to the world of diplomacy and international mediation.
The act had been announced for months.
And although the participation of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov
, was initially expected
, the crisis in northeastern Europe and the decision to come from his Ukrainian counterpart,
Dimitro Kuleba
, have boosted the interest of the event.
The meeting between the ministers of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will take place in the run-up to the Forum.
It will be the first time that Kuleba and Lavrov have seen each other since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine, which has already claimed hundreds of civilian lives and caused a million and a half refugees to the surrounding countries.
One of the expectations surrounding this dialogue is to
be able to cement the ceasefire
and the humanitarian corridors announced these days, and on which the parties will discuss this Monday.
Turkey is a country particularly interested in reducing tension.
Russia and Ukraine account for 12% of Turkish imports,
in particular cereals and sunflower oil -which is already becoming scarce on the shelves of Turkish supermarkets-.
Tourism is a strategic sector that for years has been nurtured by tourists from both countries.
This explains, for example, why Turkey has not closed its airspace to planes coming from and going to Russia.
Nor has Ankara, despite having denounced Russia's actions and acknowledging the existence of a "war" in Ukraine, been in favor of a broad front of sanctions against Russia.
At the same time, President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan , who called
Vladimir Putin
this Sunday
to urge him to seek a peaceful solution, has offered his country as a dialogue table.
It is not the only one they share.
Russia, Turkey and Iran run the Astana table, whose goal is to end the bloody
Syrian war.
Last week, Turkey invoked the Montreux convention on its straits, which connect the Mediterranean with the Black Sea.
He did not make a literal application, but rather, in order not to raise tensions, he asked Russia, and the rest of the countries interested in the conflict, not to use the straits with warships.
Moscow gave up introducing four ships into the Black Sea.
No other country, according to the Turks, has requested to send military ships to the Black Sea.
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