Russian Federation will need time to substitute banned Turkish goods – minister

The Turkish and Russian foreign ministers are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of an Organization for Security and Cooperation meeting in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Thursday, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said.

Çavuşoğlu, who is attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meeting of foreign ministers, made the comments to national broadcaster the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).

“Moreover, we will not be doomed if we can not acquire Russian gas”, he said, adding Turkey buys natural gas from various countries.

Russian Federation retaliated for the downing of the jet by deploying long-range air defense missile systems to its base in Syria, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the border with Turkey.

“Perhaps I am discussing too bluntly, but the control over that thievish company could simply be given to the closest individuals”, Antonov said, including that Erdogan’s son heads a top energy business and his son in law was named Turkey’s energy minister.

“We confirmed our views”, Lavrov said. “Every day it produces a variety of lies”, Davutoglu said.

Sergey Lavrov, visiting Cyprus Wednesday, says attempts to impose artificial deadlines and “so-called impartial mediation efforts” in previous rounds of negotiations have “proven not to be fruitful”. Russian Federation insists the aircraft was above Syrian territory.

Ankara says that the plane was shot down after it illegally entered Turkish space. “We just don’t believe that to be true in any way, shape or form”.

“We know the value of the Turkish president’s word”.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had heard “nothing new” from his Turkish counterpart on Thursday after the first high-level bilateral contact between the two countries since the Turkish airforce shot down a Russian jet nine days ago. Erdoğan told reporters after the Paris conference on climate change on Monday.

Meanwhile, according to the resolution, Turkish citizens without a labour contract or a civil contract signed before December 31, 2015 would not be allowed to work in Russian Federation from January 1, 2016.