President Dr Mohamed Muizzu and the President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held official talks on Monday evening at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.
Muizzu noted that the bilateral partnership between the Maldives and Türkiye is strong and will be expanded to new areas of cooperation, including trade, investment, renewable energy, and higher education.
He expressed profound appreciation to Erdoğan and the people of Türkiye for the support extended to the Maldives in various areas of socio-economic development.
Erdoğan congratulated Muizzu on his election victory and expressed his confidence that the visit will help to start a new chapter in the bilateral relations between Türkiye and the Maldives.
The two presidents reviewed progress in a wide range of topics in the bilateral cooperation between the two countries and agreed on a roadmap for expanding cooperation between the two countries.
Muizzu and Erdoğan condemned in the strongest terms, Israel’s war on Palestine, and expressed the hope that the current pause in hostilities will become a cease-fire and eventually an end to the war.
The two presidents noted that a permanent solution for peace in Palestine can only be attained through the establishment of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital within pre-1967 borders, and that Israel should end the illegal occupation of Palestine immediately and return the lands forcefully seized from Palestinians.
At the end of the talks, the two countries signed the “Agreement on Trade And Economic Cooperation Between the Government of the Republic of Maldives and the Government of the Republic Of Türkiye”.
Muizzu, accompanied by First Lady Madam Sajidha Mohamed, and a high-level Ministerial Delegation, is making his first Official Visit overseas to Türkiye from 26-29 November.
