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Tuesday 15 Dec 2015 - 10:31 Makkah mean time-4-3-1437
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Moscow, (IINA) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that the bilateral summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan, which was supposed to commence on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, has been cancelled, Reuters reported.
The summit was agreed upon during a meeting between the two leaders in Turkey on the sidelines of a G-20 summit last month. The agreement predated Ankara's shooting down of a Russian military jet near the Syrian-Turkish border.
"It won't happen, it's not planned", Peskov said regarding the summit when asked about it by reporters on Monday.
Ties between Moscow and Ankara have sharply deteriorated since the downing of the Russian jet that violated Turkish airspace on November 24.
Moscow has imposed economic sanctions on Turkey, and Putin ordered his armed forces last Friday to "shoot down immediately any target" which threatens Russian troops or infrastructure in Syria.
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