Turkey considers "
legitimate
" Russia's request to lift sanctions on Russian agricultural exports to facilitate Ukrainian exports, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.
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"
If we have to open the Ukrainian international market, we believe that removing obstacles to Russian exports is legitimate
," said Mevlut Cavusoglu, who received his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Ankara to find an agreement on Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea. .
