Top Turkish Diplomat Speaks With UK's Raab

19.10.2020 18:42

Mevlut Cavusoglu talks COVID 19, Azerbaijan Armenia hostilities, Eastern Med, Libya with UK Foreign Secretary Raab.

By Murat Ozgur Guvendik In a Monday phone call, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab discussed a number of regional issues, said Turkish diplomatic sources.

In addition to the coronavirus pandemic, the two top diplomats discussed the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Upper Karabakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Turkey's energy rights in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the situation in Libya, currently under a recently declared cease-fire, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Separately, Cavusoglu also had a phone call with Ruslan Kazakbayev, Kyrgyzstan's new foreign minister, to congratulate him on his new posting.

*Writing by Merve Berker -

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