Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kouleba asked on Thursday March 17 that Turkey be "
one of the guarantors
" of a possible agreement with Russia, announced his counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu, visiting Lviv in the west of the country. 'Ukraine.
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"
Ukraine has made an offer on the collective security agreement: P5 (the five permanent members of the Security Council, editor's note), plus Turkey and Germany
," said Mevlüt Cavusoglu.
"
During my contacts in Moscow yesterday, I saw that the Russian Federation saw no objection to it and that it could accept such an offer
", specified the minister who met Wednesday in Moscow the head of diplomacy Russian Sergei Lavrov.
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Mevlüt Cavusoglu, who spoke to the press after these two diplomatic meetings, considered that “
hopes for a ceasefire have increased
”.
In addition, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone on Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to whom he reiterated his offer to host a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “
in Ankara or Istanbul
”.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan also insisted "
on the need to open the humanitarian corridors
" to allow civilians to leave the combat zones, reported the Turkish presidency in a press release.
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