Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria will sign a plan to clear mines in the Black Sea in Istanbul on 11 January.
This was announced by Turkish National Defence Minister Yaşar Güler.
Guler noted that Turkey “responsibly and impartially implements the Montreux Straits Convention, which ensures balance in the Black Sea.”
“We plan to hold a signing ceremony in Istanbul on January 11, 2024 with the participation of the defence ministers of the three countries,” he was quoted by TASS as saying.
Earlier, the deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, Mikhail Popov, said that a storm in the Black Sea could have dispersed minefields that the Ukrainian military had set up.