Turkish, Belarusian presidents meet in Astana
October 14, 2022, 9:39 am

Turkish, Belarusian presidents meet in Astana

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) and his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko meet in Astana, Kazakhstan, Oct.13, 2022. (AA Photo)

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kazakhstan on Thursday (Oct 13).

Erdoğan and Lukashenko held closed-door discussions after the general debate of the sixth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Astana.

No further information was released about the meeting.

Erdoğan is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss recent developments and the Ukraine war.

Belarus was one of the five countries to reject condemning Russia's recent move to annex four Ukrainian regions at a United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (Oct 12), along with Russia, Nicaragua, North Korea and Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets young entrepreneurs in Moscow on June 9, 2022. (File photo: AFP)

US and Nato leaders on Thursday (Oct 13) welcomed the UN’s condemnation of Russia’s attempted annexation of four eastern Ukrainian territories.

“The vote in the UN was a clear condemnation of the illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories and a clear call on Putin to reverse these decisions and respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” said Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

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On 30 September 2022, Russia, amid an ongoing invasion, declared its annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

The four annexed regions make up about 15% (90,000 sq km) of Ukraine's territory and none were fully under Russian control at the time.

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