Ukraine, Turkey to meet in quadriga format by year-end

Ukraine and Turkey will hold a quadriga format meeting by the end of 2021.

"I will be happy to meet again with my colleague, the Minister of Defense, with Minister Çavuşoğlu and the Minister of Defense of Turkey in the quadriga format by the end of the year," Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said at a briefing following the talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

Kuleba informed that the meeting would take place in Turkey and the parties would touch upon specific security and political projects, the implementation of which will make Ukraine and Turkey even stronger.

The Ukrainian foreign minister also thanked Çavuşoğlu for Turkey's unwavering stance on the inadmissibility of Russia's illegal occupation of Crimea and the persecution of Crimean Tatars, as well as for participation in the Crimea Platform summit and sincere interest in its development as an important international mechanism.

Kuleba stressed that the ministers had held successful talks today and taken an important step in implementing Ukraine's foreign policy strategy.

As a reminder, an agreement on the creation of a new format of political and security consultations – “quadriga” (2+2) – with the participation of foreign ministers and defense ministers of Ukraine and Turkey was reached following a working visit of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the Republic of Turkey on October 16, 2020. On December 18, 2020, the inaugural meeting in a new format took place in Kyiv.

The purpose of the “quadriga” format, which will be held annually, is to discuss the most pressing issues in the field of politics and regional security, coordinate joint actions, and develop new projects in the political, security, economic, and defense industry sectors.

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