FM: Russia planning no war with Turkey

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Moscow isn't planning any war on Turkey.
"We are not planning to wage a war against Turkey, our attitude towards Turkish people has not changed," the minister said. "We have questions only to the Turkish leadership."
According to the diplomat, friendly relations between the peoples of Russia and Turkey do not depend on politicians, but the bilateral ties will be seriously revised after the plane downing incident.
The Russian leadership has no plans to pay visits to Turkey or receive its representatives in Moscow, the Foreign Minister Sergey said.
Lavrov noted that he was going to travel to Turkey to take part in a sessioin of the Russian-Turkish strategic planning council, which is a coordinating body of the interstate dialogue. "Of course, after the attack against our aircraft we have cancelled this session," the minister said.
"We have no plans so far to visit Turkey or receive our Turkish counterparts here," Lavrov said. "Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed hope that we will be able to sit down and discuss everything calmly on the sidelines of some international events, in particular, the OSCE Ministerial Council, which will take place in Belgrade on December 3 and 4. I made no commitments, first of all, we should not discuss but understand all aspects of what has happened."
"We do not evade contacts, my conversation with minister Cavusoglu today proves that," Lavrov said.
Nevertheless, Russia is not willing to artificially create problems for Russian and Turkish companies and producers.
"Currently, the government is considering the whole range of those relations," the minister said. "We’re not willing to artificially create problems for Turkish producers and exporters who do not bear responsibility for what has happened. We’re not willing to create additional problems for our companies, which cooperate with the Turkish side either. But we cannot leave what has happened unanswered, and not because we necessarily have to respond by doing something. The thing is that too many factors in Turkey's territory are posing direct terrorist threat to Russian citizens, and not only to Russian citizens. This is some kind of a bridgehead, which probably is hardly controlled by anyone. Though there are reports that those processes are followed by security services one way or another," Lavrov said.
"Being multifunctional and multicomponent, the situation requires an interagency analysis, which will be swiftly executed. Proposals for reporting to the president will also be prepared," the minister said, adding that "hopefully this all will happen quickly and we surely won’t make any offers, which would artificially create distance between our countries’ people."
Lavrov said that his Turkish counterpart expressed regret over the Sukhoi-24M incident, but at the same time tried to present excuses for the action taken by the Turkish Air Force.
"We were waiting for explanations from the Turkish side yesterday and at a higher level. Better late than never," Lavrov said following the telephone conversation.
"What should Turkey do to normalise the situation? - the minister asked. "It is necessary to draw the conclusions, after all, that attacks like yesterday’s incident are absolutely unacceptable. I have heard condolences from (Turkish Foreign) Minister Cavusoglu, but all the other statements were aimed at justifying the Turkish position."
According to the Russian minister, Cavusoglu assured him that Ankara wants to preserve friendly ties with Moscow. However, the Turkish minister declined to answer whether Turkey seeks to fence off areas of militants’ infrastructure facilities in Syria.

Source: TASS.