TBILISI (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the 25th Annual Session of the OSCE PA kicked off in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
"Clearly a dialogue between all parties to all disputes is something that we would encourage. In this organization, we welcome dialogue and we welcome normalization of relations between individual parties," Lord Peter Bowness said, answering a question about his reaction on normalization of ties between Russia and Turkey.
He noted, however, that it was "far too early" to predict the results of the process to restore bilateral ties.
On June 27, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a letter addressed to Putin apologized over the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish jet and extended condolences to the family of the pilot killed in the incident.
By doing so Ankara fulfilled one of the conditions put forward by Moscow following the incident that paralyzed the long-term partnership between the two countries. The letter also said legal proceedings were underway against the Turkish citizen allegedly involved in the Russian pilot’s death – another condition named by Russia in order to restore severed ties.
