Top Russian diplomat Sergei Lavrov will hold a meeting with his Turkish counterpart in Istanbul today to discuss ways of boosting bilateral ties and bringing an end to the two-year-old Syrian crisis.
SIA reports citing Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Lavrov are expected to meet at 10:45 a.m., and the two will hold a press conference around 1 p.m. at Çırağan Palace in Istanbul.
"The meeting is expected to be an opportunity to review the preparations for the fourth meeting to be held in Russia in the second half of the year," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Syria, the Caucasus, the Black Sea, Central Asia and the Balkans will be on the agenda, a Turkish diplomatic source said yesterday, adding that the meetings boosted their economic and social ties.
The economic targets between the countries are "assertive but realistic," the diplomat also said, adding that the countries’ mutual will was determined in an institutional framework at the meetings. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Syria, Middle East, North Africa and the North Korean crisis will be discussed during Lavrov’s visit.
The meeting will be third of its kind of the Joint Strategic Planning Group (JSPG), which is a sub-organ of the Turkish-Russian High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC).
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