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Tuesday 01 Dec 2015 - 12:21 Makkah mean time-19-2-1437
Paris, (IINA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin ignored on Monday a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Paris, AFP reported.
Turkish authorities, meanwhile, reiterated that it will not apologize over last Tuesday’s downing of the Russian jet as Moscow rolled out sanctions aimed at exacting economic revenge on Ankara. Putin and Erdogan have been locked in a furious war of words since the incident, and the Russian president rejected the Turkish leader’s offer of face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the Climate Change Conference in the French capital.
“No meeting with Erdogan is planned. There is no discussion of such a meeting”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
Russia’s government on Monday laid out more details of retaliatory economic sanctions aimed at denting Turkey’s key tourism and agricultural sectors.
Moscow announced it will halt fruit and vegetable imports from Turkey after Putin signed a decree over the weekend banning charter flights and the sale of package holidays, and scrapping Russia’s visa-free regime with the country.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the sanctions a “first step” as Moscow also said it would limit Turkish transport firms and tighten controls on construction contracts.
The authorities, however, stopped short of targeting Russia’s major joint energy projects with Turkey. The announcement on the economic reprisals came as the body of pilot Oleg Peshkov, who was killed when the plane was shot down, was repatriated from Ankara.
Russian media has portrayed the handover of the remains as a gesture of goodwill on the part of Ankara after several days of heated rhetoric over the downing.
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