Moscow highly appreciates the position of Ankara in favor of maintaining and complying with the Montreux Convention on Bosphorus and Dardanelles. This was announced on Wednesday in an interview with Habertürk TV channel Ambassador of Russia in Turkey Alexei Erkhov.
“I must say that we highly appreciate the position of our Turkish colleagues in favor of preserving Montreux Convention as an important international legal institution, an international legal document, in favor of its conservation and compliance. We are in constant contact with our Turkish colleagues on this Question. I think it’s still everything that can be said today, but I am convinced that we can all together come to such a situation when all our interests, all of our aspirations will be observed and implemented, “the diplomat stressed.