Erdogan says Turkey ready in principle to act as Ukraine's guarantor -media
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkeyisready, inprinciple, toactas aguarantorcountry for Ukraine, but the details of such a format need to be worked out, President TayyipErdoganwas cited as saying on Thursday, adding Moscow's decision to scale back some of its operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv was "truly important".
NATO memberTurkeyshares a maritime border with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea, has good ties with both and has offered tomediate the conflict. It has supported Ukraine while opposing sanctions on Moscow, and this week hosted negotiators from both sides for the first face-to-face peace talks in weeks.
Speaking on a flight from Uzbekistan,Erdogansaid the talks in Istanbul, where Ukraine gave Russia a written proposal to end the war, had provided "significant momentum" to the process. He added he would again convey an offer to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia's Vladimir Putin for talks.
"On theguarantorship matter, we can be one of theguarantorcountries ensuringUkraine'ssecurity, we arereadyfor this inprinciple, but of course the details of this need to be worked out," broadcaster NTV cited him as saying, referring to an offer from Ukraine for several countries, includingTurkey, toactas securityguarantors.
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