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In denial of statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu, who spoke about the establishment of a Turkish-American working group on the issue of S-400, proceeded the State Department.
Responding to a question, a spokesman for the United States Department of State clarified that there is no such working group and emphasized that Washington remains fully committed to the implementation of the CAATSA sanctions. As he explained, there are routine consultations on the impact sanctions will have on bilateral military cooperation.
“We understand that the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has clarified the positions of the minister (Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu). There is no working group on CAATSA sanctions or on the “review” of threats posed by the S-400 system to F-35s. There are routine consultations at the work level on the impact of sanctions on existing military cooperation. We remain committed to the full implementation of the sanctions., as announced by Minister Pompeo on December 14“He noted characteristically.
What Tsavousoglou said
Earlier, Turkey’s Foreign Minister had stated that it had been decided to establish a joint US-Turkish working group on the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-missile systems from Ankara.
According to Tsavousoglu, experts from the two countries are negotiating the responsibilities of the joint working group, which has yet to be formed.
The Turkish side proposed the formation of a working group. “It just came to our notice then.” Because of course we always prefer dialogue, we said ‘yes’ and the expert-level negotiations have started, “Tsavousoglu said during a meeting on Turkey’s foreign policy in 2020.
Tsavousoglu claimed that his US counterpart Mike Pompeo had shown interest in establishing such a group. “In our meeting with Pompeo we said that our proposal is still valid and the Americans invited us to work together on the issue.” In any case, he described the US sanctions as an “attack on sovereign rights.”
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