Tbilisi - Regional security issues, among them Ukraine and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have been highlighted at the Istanbul meeting between Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Sept. 29.
The two sides analyzed ‘certain aspects of bilateral and multilateral cooperation between Georgia and Turkey as reliable and strategic partners,’ the Georgian president’s press service said.
The leaders conferred on bilateral political, economic, trade and cultural relations, with an emphasis on trilateral cooperation prospects.
‘I have discussed with the Turkish colleague regional security issues, the deepening of Georgia-Turkey relations and the importance of Georgian-Turkish-Azeri projects, which are a really important prerequisite of regional stability and development,’ the press service quoted the Georgian president as saying.
‘We also talked about security issues related to Ukraine and ISIS [aka ISIL],’ Margvelashvili said.
