The president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the
Prime-Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan created the Council of cooperation
at high levels as the Kremlin press service reports.
Within the Council a
Joint Strategic planing Group under the leadership of Ministries of Foreign
Affairs.
In a signed joint statement says that "The Council will be a
leading body that provides strategy and main areas for development of the
relationships between Russia and Turkey, that coordinates the realization of
important projects of political, trade-economic, cultural and humanitarian
cooperation."
The parties agreed to establish a public forum of two countries
with the participation of academic and business circles of civil society and
cultural activists organizations. As outcome of the negotiations the parties
signed the Agreement on cooperation in building and operating nuclear power
plant at the site Akkuyu.
The parties also countersigned the
intergovernmental agreement about the conditions of mutual trips of citizens and
the Agreement on establishing a joint international railway-ferry communication
through the ports of Caucasus and Samsun and the Memorandum on Cooperation for
the safe transportation of oil from the Black sea region based on the priority
of the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline project.