What important meetings is Putin going to hold?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to hold important meetings with his Chinese and Turkish counterparts.
Putin says he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping soon. He said that he calls me his friend and I am happy to call him my friend because he is a person who is doing a lot for the development of Russia-China relations.
Putin will host Turkish President Erdogan in Sochi on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, the Kremlin said.
“The talks will actually take place in Sochi on Monday,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Two Turkish sources told Reuters on Thursday that the meeting would mainly focus on Black Sea grain exports.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he had sent Russia “a set of concrete proposals” to restore the grain deal.
