Ankara: We agree to intensify the negotiation process to end the war in Ukraine

According to Isna, a diplomatic source in Ankara, before the talks between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Belgian counterpart, Bernard Quentin, said that Turkey agrees with increasing talks about Ukraine to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

Ukrainian forces on the battlefield are struggling to resist the Russian military, and US President-elect Donald Trump is seeking to broker a peace deal, Volodymyr Zelenskyi has shown more willingness to negotiate an end to the war in recent weeks, and apparently, It has retreated from its position to regain control of all regions of Ukraine.

Zelensky’s messages are carefully crafted. Although he has not said outright that he would agree to concessions, territorial or otherwise, these days he is more concerned with meeting the long-term security needs of Ukraine than with pushing back Russian forces.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview that at the moment, there are no preconditions for ending the war in Ukraine or any of its parts.

Novosti News agency reported that the aforementioned diplomatic ban said: In the upcoming negotiations, the Turkish Foreign Minister stressed the importance of constructive and result-oriented relations between Turkey and the European Union, the need for a fair and durable solution to the war in Ukraine, and support for intensifying the negotiation process with The goal of ending this conflict will emphasize.

The diplomats are also expected to discuss the “historic opportunity” created for stability in the region and Europe after the opposition came to power in Syria and efforts to work with the new Syrian government, the source said.

He added that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium is going to visit Türkiye on January 2 (January 13).

The statements of this informed source came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said earlier that establishing a just peace between Russia and Ukraine in 2025 would be a priority for Turkey.

Russia has previously stated that any peace talks without recognizing Russian occupations in Ukraine would be “futile”.

In the early months of the Ukraine war in 2022, Turkey hosted the talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul to resolve the conflict, which did not yield any concrete results.

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