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Simferopol - Anatoliy Mohyliov, the prime minister of Crimea, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed strategic avenues of business cooperation at a meeting on the sidelines of the 9th Yalta Annual Meeting on Friday.

“The prime minister of Turkey expressed his great interest in
cooperation with Crimea and instructed his government to hold active
negotiations on drawing investment in Crimea and establish and develop
closer business contacts,” the Crimean information policy directorate
quoted Mohyliov as saying following the meeting.

In particular, the two discussed investment in the Crimean
agricultural and industrial sectors and the provision of grants to
Crimea for supporting returnees.

Mohyliov said a delegation of Turkish specialists worked in Crimea
the previous week to explore possibilities for running investment
projects on building industrial parks there.

“The establishment of such parks in Crimea is among promising areas
of bilateral cooperation. We discussed this at our meeting in Yalta,” he
said.

The construction of industrial parks in Crimea should provide an
impetus to the region’s economic development, Mohyliov said. Crimea and
Turkey have a huge potential for the development of bilateral mutually
advantageous cooperation, he added.

“We possess opportunities for more intensive cooperation in various
fields, and I am sure its dynamics will be growing,” he said.