be the corporation and toryism is the leading topic on this. but the efforts of mr putin and myself our cooperation is strengthened and each day. in economy we are continuing to have a good result the volume of our trade is increasing trend. and as i. said earlier is has reached twenty six billion dollars already. our. bilateral cooperation and the turkish current project is continuing. two thousand one thousand will be a very special year in terms of this this year in turkey and in russia. the mutual cultural and stories in activities will take place. in the last two years. the highest number of tourists we have where the russian taurus last

year we have received six million russian tourists and hopefully this number will increase in two thousand and nineteen. as the exemption but it's also one of the topics we have discussed. we think it's a requirement for. a drink of our close relationship to have full access and. we have the abrasions on especially the situation in syria. about the agreement and it bled agreement and the collateral syria agreement especially. the development on the field that we have assessed. after the withdrawal of all the

station of united states we have assessed that decision. serious peace and solidarity. dialogues and cooperation is very important and we will continue. to reach success on that path. we are going to continue on our work and the terror organizations. it's very critical that our organizations don't benefit from a power. vacuum in the region that's turkey our main aim is especially cleansing terror organizations as he why i g y p g and especially. this is our responsibility and i expressed that he is supporting these and here is provoke. provoking these we we know very well.

especially terror organizations we have a common fight. we are going to cooperate and we are going to. actually act on our decisions rapidly especially about the constitution committee. is very important and its completion is and we are going to focus on this work especially. the corporation with our friends with thinking that we are going to cover a big distance especially the refugees. safe return to their home countries. this is. this is a hot topic or us as

a country who is hosting four million refugees the areas we have cleansed from terrorist we have sent back three thousand three hundred thousand refugees back to the safe land. syrian brothers are living in these safe zones with peace and live in and normal life. this model opened the returning of the refugees and this should be applied to the east of a freighter. with our bilateral meetings and we are going to continue our meetings. just like they are stana summit. hopefully we will have a new trilateral meeting with the. with with mr rouhani as well and also we will have

a high rank strategic think. will take place in our visit and the decisions that we took here today hopefully will bring benefit to our countries and i would like to thank my friend putin for his hospitality. that. states the. deliberations the united states is there any positive results did you have this in your meeting today. could you please inform us about the technical details especially i'd like to ask mr putin about this what is russia's approach on this

topic thank you. about the safe zone of course. especially the leaders and. related ministers are still deliberating of course for us any threat. to us any region in any areas that is threatening for us is important of course. these threatening regions we will take precautions. and united states has showed its positive approach. of course as you know. this is about thirty two kilometer dept region and about this of course. with russia we don't have any disagreement of course this.

is going to be cleansed an area an area cleansed from terrorists because for the. for the future of course our ministers our minister of the fans our intelligence organizations will be in contact and they will be emphasizing and securing our sensitivities on this matter. like to remind them that. american military members are situated in the territory of syrian arab republic illegally for their stay there the no grounds. all of that illegal international h.-a there knowing to take over the legitimate government nor the decision of the un security security council for that at the same time we we we started constructive work with the american

partners to fight terrorism including in syria. i hope that this work will continue as the first thing the second we will respectfully three the interests of turkish friends in this fair to ensure their security and the third one. now is that if the agreement between syrian republic and the turkish republic from nineteen ninety eight way it speaks about fighting terrorism and i think is the basis which. would close as many serious covers many as are concerning be ensuring its turkish disputing is. both borders we discuss this topic in detail and finally at the end of this press conference the correspondent for russia today.

please mr erdogan mr putin a question a few parts one topic first of all i would like to clarify concerning the situation any way in spite of some set success as this tail of the terrorist continue to operate and there are more and more violations there of the ceasefire regime i'd like to clarify why you. think. we are not long past eighteen hundred hours g.m.t. here on out zero nine pm in moscow where. so you see the turkish president rejected and the russian president vladimir persian have been holding a news conference after their talks today they have spoken mostly about the situation in syria but also about a lot of cooperation economic interest and cooperation between the two countries will just keep taking a listen to some of these questions first part of your question relates to leap

zone of security we really i spoke about it mr president spoke about it we discussed this. in detail today. alack once again to repeat myself we see that our turkish friends. do a lot of efforts so that people in all of our agreements concerning insurance security and the creation of the buffer zone. until now for sure there are many problems there we see all that and in our turkish patna see that we agreed so that how we can coordinate our way in the near future with. their ministers of defense also comes back to the presence additional consultations they work out of. joint measures will be implementing them and they will we will. try to fulfill all obligations we have joint conviction that we should jointly continue

to terrorism. whatever they are including in a. setting the second part of your question concerning the formation. we think that it is a very important direction which should fix so late results saturday the results because so no fighting terrorists in the in the territory because of the finally all these years. in a long term can be resolved by political diplomatic means to. reach the consensus about all the conflicting sides in syria it can be done exclusively in the course of the including on the creation of such a structure of the state power what that would be stable acceptable for all confessional ethnic groups and. within the framework of which everyone would feel

that here is belonging to the future of their country syrian arab republic what kind sense of the difficulties yes they are awesome fortunately i saw it about it all of us all interested but dispose of this process should display should show more political will more consistency. and an insincere frank desire to reach its results we met in a stumble in the initiative of the turkish president as you remember russia turkey france germany we agreed that that. will jointly work on the creation of this committee they call it ask russia to take delegation to coordinate this is years. on the personal cost to make up of this committee. with the syrian government and with. partners.

turkish republic. got to go to a difficult task to coordinate this list with their present that they saw the opposition carried out this work in full it was a complex work we agreed with gordon at that with to her and with damascus in a very difficult discussion i could discussion i can assure you that i am sure our turkish friends had a difficult time to. arrange this place with the opposition. but we know. we just know it's not just. miss the present that will confirm it the way we agreed . to what was stated by the turkish party their work was completed and. at the final stage when we should have in geneva we had our some of our partners i think consider this work to be

incomplete. you can give me this. it was it was very unexpected for us evident in the internet this is an internet. the general secretary. signed. there and directed directed on behalf of the represented so france germany great britain. the fifth point your special represented them as tour de mistura should not approve any statement regarding the constitutional committee. which they guarantee. of estonia will make in geneva on the eighteenth nineteenth december. it is. it was completely unexpected for us. it's difficult for me to comment on it.

this appeal to the general secretary on the part of our partners. i will have enough patients will continue working with them though we don't quite a bit don't quite understand what is this position is based upon. had conversations with my colleagues from france. germany. because any ministers of foreign affairs. will manage to arrange this work in this way so that our level of trust will there is top finally.

friends. about it later and about the constitution. on. this subject that we have discussed. i think he gave a very clear answer about this. organizations in it live and our combat against them will continue in cooperation with russia of course our combat against terror organization is not only temporary we will continue the struggle because our aim is to maintain. the people of syria and their and their peace and happiness and also not to give any opportunities to terror organizations and now we have confirmed this in our discussions and of course we have also discussed the constitution committee and our foreign ministry. has been. has

been. told to continue this process and. summit in istanbul all the decisions we have taken in there should be. continued of course there is a new representative. on that we i don't know how this process will continue but as . let there has been bread. just earlier of course surprise this but this is just applies to them it doesn't apply to us. as we said in istanbul men and we agreed we thought together. we have. agreed together. we will continue this process as we greet. my friend president reject typer one there alongside russia's vladimir putin outlining the next steps to take far as trying to resolve the war in syria or

at least make some progress there there has been a lot to digest there actually and we're going to do that with thank you. our team and that is now in the shower in london our senior political analyst and also rory chalons in moscow. for you first as i said lots to discuss there and i know these sorts of news conferences a very orchestrated but even so you saw two people there being very friendly very complimentary to each other and two men who are technically on the other sides or on different sides of this conflict. you know these are two men that have talked together so many times over recent months and years of course they have their problems when the russian plane was shot down over the turkey syria border a couple of years ago but things have got better between them since then and of course the joints roles they have and the start of formats as brought them together

again and again and again now they have differences of course they have differences in what they want to see happen in the syrian conflict and they have different interests relating to different parts of the syrian conflict right now now that the turks to one specific me wants to have some sort of buffer zone set up in the north to help protect the turkish border from the kurdish fighters that turkey has long said are terrorists now one thing that was being rumored was whether there was perhaps going to be some kind of deal that these two men could make essentially with vladimir putin saying ok you can have your buffer zone in the north if we were allowed to do what we want with it i couldn't see from what the two men were talking about here that they have reached any such deal when they were talking about the safety.