Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Turkey Tuesday for a two-day visit expected to focus on energy cooperation, including a plan to build Turkey's first nuclear-power plant.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in
Turkey
Tuesday for a two-day visit expected to focus on energy cooperation, including
a plan to build
Turkey
's
first nuclear-power plant.
Flying in from Syria, Medvedev was to meet Wednesday with Turkish President
Abdullah Gul and co-chair with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan the first
meeting of a recently agreed "high-level cooperation council"
comprising several ministers from each side.
The two countries are expected to sign more than 20 agreements, including
energy deals, the Kremlin's top foreign policy adviser, Sergei Prikhodko, said
Monday.
Among them is expected to be a memorandum to build and operate a nuclear-power
station in
Turkey
.
Russia
has
long looked to build the country's first nuclear-power plant, but a Turkish
court last year scrapped a tender won by a Russian-led consortium.
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
bypassing
Ukraine
.
Turkey
,
which also supports the European Union's rival Nabucco pipeline, agreed in
August to allow
Russia
to
survey its
Black Sea
waters for the project.
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