MOSCOW, Russia, June 30 (NNN-ITAR TASS) – Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that, there have been no delays in the delivery of Russian S-400 air defence missiles to his country.
He made the remarks at a meeting with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the G20 Osaka summit in Japan, according to an official transcript of the conversation, published on the Kremlin website.
“The S-400 delivery — we continue watching over this process, in accordance with our agreement reached in Dushanbe,” Erdogan told Putin, calling joint missile production and technology transfer a priority of bilateral cooperation.
The supplies of the S-400 missiles to Turkey will begin in the first half of July, Erdogan said earlier this month, after returning from the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, held in Tajikistan’s Dushanbe.
The United States repeatedly warned that, it will cut off Turkey’s purchase of F-35 fighters, if Ankara goes ahead with plans to buy the Russian S-400 missiles.
Pentagon announced in June that it would halt F-35 fighter training for Turkish pilots, and all Turkish trainees in the programme must leave the country by July 31.
The S-400 air defence missile system is considered the most advanced of its kind in Russia, capable of destroying targets at a distance of up to 400 km and a height of up to 30 km.– NNN-ITAR TASS
