Sputnik/ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, at the UN headquarters in New York, during which the parties discussed the schedule of upcoming bilateral contacts, said Russian Foreign Ministry.
“The schedule of upcoming bilateral contacts was discussed,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the parties also touched upon bilateral trade and economic cooperation.
The statement added that the diplomats also discussed the progress in the implementation of key Russian-Turkish projects in the energy sector.
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Lavrov and Fidan confirmed at the meeting the need for coordinating the steps of the two countries in the interests of finding mutually acceptable solutions to acute regional problems, primarily regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip, Syria, the Middle East as a whole and in the Black Sea zone, as well as in the Transcaucasus, the ministry said.