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) has been renamed the Republic of Türkiye,” he told RIA Novosti.
Dujarric stressed that immediately after Ankara's appeal, the change took effect.
Earlier, the Italian representative to NATO, Francesco Maria Talo, said that in the new NATO strategic concept, which will be adopted at the NATO summit in Madrid in June, the status of Russia will be changed, and China will be added to it.