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Putin to visit Turkey Nov 19: Kremlin
MOSCOW, Nov 14, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will
visit Turkey on Monday, November 19, the Kremlin said in a statement on
Wednesday.
In Istanbul, Putin, together with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
will take part in a ceremony marking the completion of the construction of
the offshore section of the TurkStream gas pipeline in a video-conference, it
said.
The two leaders will also have a meeting, during which issues of further
development of Russian-Turkish relations and current regional and
international problems will be discussed, the statement said.
The construction of the TurkStream, a natural gas pipeline from Russia to
Turkey across the Black Sea, started in May 2017. Russian gas giant Gazprom
plans to begin supplying gas through the TurkStream at the end of 2019.
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