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Cairo today denied reports that it was preparing to resume talks with Turkish officials aimed at restarting relations. Egypt and Turkey. As it said on the Russian news. TASS Agency a senior diplomatic source from Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, the meetings and their preparation are not discussed.
“No direct or indirect contact or preparation for meetings with Turkey is taking place,” the high-level diplomatic source said, emphasizing that any statement by Turkey must be confirmed with real action. “This is not the first time that Ankara has made statements to resume contacts with Cairo. But these are only Attempts to break the political isolation in the region.. The ideological nature of Turkey’s foreign policy, which speaks to the Ottoman heritage in Libya, the doctrine of the “Blue Homeland” (Ankara’s claims on territorial waters in the Aegean, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea) and the fact that “They do not hide their ambitions, it is a cause for concern,” said a senior diplomatic source in Cairo.
As another source from Egypt’s Foreign Ministry told Russia’s TASS news agency, “For Cairo, what matters is the actual steps, not just the words of Ankara, and Turkey must show good intentions and stop interfering in Egypt’s internal affairs and then possibly Egypt’s attitude will change. “” At the moment there is no need to jump to conclusions, “the source said.
Among other things Al Arabiya television network Citing his own sources, he reported on Friday that Ankara and Cairo held telephone conversations in the last hours, during which the two sides discussed the next meeting in Cairo with the participation of diplomats and representatives of the secret services. At the same time, according to the same television station, Egypt made it a condition for the resumption of the talks that Ankara stop “the escalation of the situation in the Mediterranean.”
Today Friday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlüt Tsavousoglu made statements about resumption of contacts between Ankara and Cairo, at the diplomatic level. “Relationships were broken many years ago and that is why it is not possible to reestablish them in one day, as if nothing had happened. That is why it is important to have successive meetings, define a roadmap and act on it, “he said in an interview with Anadolu Agency, adding:” We have contacts with Egypt, between the secret services and abroad. Ministry level. We also initiate contacts at the diplomatic level. “
Source: ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ
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