Russia and Turkey will sign more than 20 agreements, including energy deals, during President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Ankara this week, his top foreign policy aide said in comments released Monday.
Russia
and
Turkey
will
sign more than 20 agreements, including energy deals, during President Dmitry
Medvedev's visit to
Ankara
this
week, his top foreign policy aide said in comments released Monday.
"Some 25 agreements will be signed," the Kremlin's top foreign policy
adviser Sergei Prikhodko said.
Medvedev will travel to
Turkey
on a
two-day visit Tuesday, on a trip that will also see him making a landmark visit
to neighboring
Syria
earlier this week.
In
Ankara
,
Russia
and
Turkey
will
sign a co-operation memorandum to build and service a nuclear power station,
Prikhodko said, without providing further details.
Russia
has
long looked to build
Turkey
's
first nuclear power plant but a Turkish court last year scrapped a tender won
by a Russian-led consortium to build the plant. A consortium led by
Atomstroiexport
,
Russia
's
state nuclear giant, had been the only bidder in the tender to build four
nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 4,800-megawatts at Akkuyu, in the
Mediterranean
province
of
Mersin
.
Agreements to be signed by gas giant OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) and state oil firm
Rosneft (ROSN.RS) will be among the "most commercially significant"
deals to be signed, Prikhodko said.
Russia
is
Turkey
's
main gas supplier and wants to build a section of its key South Stream pipeline
through
Turkey
's
portion of the
Black Sea
to create a new route for
Russian gas to
Europe
that will bypass
Ukraine
.
Turkey
,
which supports the rival European Union-backed Nabucco pipeline, has agreed to
allow
Moscow
to
start surveys in its territorial waters in the
Black
Sea
for South Stream.
Writing in an article for the Turkish daily Zaman, Medvedev praised
intensifying ties between the two countries.
"We can confidently say that Russian-Turkish ties are approaching the
level of a full-fledged strategic partnership," he said in comments
released for publication Monday.
The main event of the Russian-Turkish summit will be the first meeting of a new
council for higher co-operation headed by Medvedev and Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kremlin said.
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