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Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The thank you for mediating the talks on grain exports from Ukraine, so there has been some progress.
“I want to thank you for your mediation efforts,” Putin told Erdogan during a meeting in Tehran in a statement released by the Kremlin as reported by AFP, Wednesday (20/7/2022).
“With your mediation, we have moved forward,” Putin said. “Not all problems have been solved yet, but the fact that there is movement is good.”
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Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine has hampered shipments from one of the world’s biggest exporters of wheat and grains, stoking fears of global food shortages.
Putin also said there were “many questions” about war-torn Syria that needed to be addressed.
He also said that the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, which is at the center of a territorial dispute between arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan, was another “important” issue to discuss.
Earlier, Putin arrived in Tehran for talks on the Syria war at a trilateral summit overshadowed by the fallout from Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.
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