The Foreign Affairs Committee is on a working visit to Türkiye

The delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) is on a working visit to Türkiye, where the allied relations between Estonia and Türkiye and further supporting of Ukraine will be discussed. The visit will last until Friday.

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Marko Mihkelson said that the meetings held during the visit would focus on Russia’s ongoing war of aggression and the changes it had caused in the security situation, which also include the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. “It is our duty to do everything to help Ukraine to victory and to bring Russia’s current regime to a strategic defeat. To achieve that, Ukraine needs more military as well as economic and diplomatic support than before, and at the same time, it is necessary to continue isolating of Russia at the international level,” Mihkelson underlined. “We also consider sanctions against Russia very important and call on all allies to join them so as to weaken Russia’s capability to wage a war.”

During the visit, the delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee will meet with Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye Akif Çağatay Kiliç, Chairman of the Türkiye-Estonia Parliamentary Friendship Group Yusuf Ziya Yilmaz and Head of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Selami Altinok. The members of the Foreign Affairs Committee will also have meetings with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Faruk Kaymakci as well as with İbrahim Kalin, foreign policy adviser to the President of Türkiye.

Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Marko Mihkelson is accompanied on the visit to by members of the Foreign Affairs Committee Ruuben Kaalep, Mailis Reps and Indrek Saar.

In January, 100 years will pass from the establishment of diplomatic relations between Estonia and Türkiye.

Source: Parliament of Estonia