OREANDA-NEWS Russia and Turkey have agreed to deepen cooperation in the economy and trade, stimulate the growth of trade turnover, Vladimir Putin told Russia.

"Naturally, in addition to cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy, we (with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan - ed.) have just discussed other topical issues of the development of the entire complex of Russian-Turkish relations. And in this regard, a number of fundamentally important joint agreements have been reached. The main thing is that we agreed... and further deepen cooperation in the economy and trade, stimulate the progressive growth of bilateral trade," Putin said at the ceremony of delivery of Russian-made nuclear fuel to the power unit No. 1 of the Turkish Akkuyu NPP via videoconference.

Putin recalled that the trade turnover of the two countries by the end of 2022 exceeded $ 62 billion. In addition, the Russian leader said, the two heads of state agreed to encourage the inflow of reciprocal investments, to help the business structures of both countries to enter each other's markets.