Turkish Foreign Minister has announced that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have agreed to meet on March 10.

According to Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, tripartite meeting with Ukraine and Russia to be held at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum later this week, writes aa.com.tr.

“We will hold this meeting in a tripartite format in Antalya on Thursday, March 10”, - said the Minister.

Expressing hope that the meeting “will be a turning point” and “important step” towards peace and stability, the Turkish foreign minister said Ankara would “continue to make efforts for a lasting peace”.

This will be the first high-level meeting between the warring nations since Russia"s invasion of Ukraine.

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum will be held on March 11-13 in Turkiye’s southern resort city of Antalya.