The military authorities of Russia and Turkey have established a direct link for the flight safety of the Russian aviation group, which in the past week has destroyed 46 control points and 6 factories of Islamic State in Syria. Russia and Turkey are located in one geographical space, so it is important, Ankara and Moscow believe, to prevent the development of the military conflict in the region, particularly in Syria.
The Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Commission for UNESCO, Vice-President of the INF, Alexander Dzasokhov, reminded that "Russia and Turkey, as is well known, are members of a large number of international and regional organizations. But there is only one regional organization, the BSEC, the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, which emerged after the end of the Cold War, in a classic sense, and the organization originated at the initiative of the Republic of Turkey and the Russian Federation. The participants of the first meeting expressed understandable caution on the eve of the establishment of the BSEC, they decided to deal only with economic issues without any politics. But experience shows that strategic balance and strategic stability can only be achieved if political efforts create certain conditions."
That is why Dzasokhov believes that political issues should be on the agenda of the BSEC.
He also touched upon the cooperation of the BSEC and the EU: "Multiple quite insistent initiatives of Istanbul, of the headquarters of our organization to expand cooperation with the EU, are covertly or openly ignored. So this situation cannot stay unchanged. Because the EU and the BSEC are neighboring, regional organizations. Therefore, I support the idea that we need to attempt a permanent dialogue between our organization and the EU against the background of the current events. We know that our colleagues, Turkish diplomats and politicians, have the same opinion."
Dzasokhov also drew attention to the need to develop integrating infrastructure projects: "Many years have passed since the agreement on the creation of a ring road around the coast of the Black Sea basin was signed. At the moment the project is not being implemented, because it stumbles into areas where there are unresolved conflicts. Here, too, it is necessary to use the additional capabilities so that we, Moscow and Ankara, have an opportunity to look for ways to ensure that this creative ring road, which would open up great prospects for the movement of goods, people and so on, all the same, can be fully implemented."
