CRI听力:Russia and Turkey aim to revive cooperation: Putin

Putin highlighted that his talks with Erdogan were very important for the future of bilateral ties, which outlined initial objectives for long-term restoration.

"Our priority is reaching pre-crisis level of bilateral cooperation and it is a really pressing task, because only in the first five months of this year Russia-Turkey trade volume shrank by 43 percent."

The Russian president said Erdogan's visit is a sign that Turkey is willing to restore bilateral cooperation despite its difficult political situation caused by the failed coup attempt last month.

Both sides indicated they would like to overcome the difficulties, to restore state relations for the sake of the two peoples.

Putin stressed that to restore normal bilateral economic cooperation can't happen overnight.

"We have to undertake diligent work to revive our trade and economic cooperation. This process has already been launched, but it will take some time. A visit to Moscow at the end of July by Turkish delegation representing the economic bloc of the government was an important step."

The two presidents talked about the Turkish stream pipeline project and construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, as well as ways to revive tourism.

Putin also noted that his country intends to gradually cancel the special economic measures limiting Turkish firms' activities in its market.

More meetings will also be held for major companies of both sides to discuss the revival of mutual trade, investment and implementation of key projects.

"Our cooperation is not limited only to energy and gas and power plants. It's quite multifaceted. It's engineering, the metal industry, trade. Today we talked a lot about resuming agricultural supplies. We will do everything in the framework of the plans we laid down today."

Putin also announced a mid-term cooperation program that spans the year 2016 to 2019, and also intergovernmental commissions of the two countries would resume contacts.

On the Syrian crisis, the Russian president reiterated that his country was determined to find a compromise on the issue with Turkey.

More specific meetings would be held on issues related to the issue's settlement in a bid to seek more satisfactory joint decisions.

For his part, Erdogan expressed hope for the resumption of charter flights between the two sides, as well as mutual trade and activities of Turkish construction contractors.

"Mr. President Vladimir Putin and I had very considerable and meaningful talks today. You know that these were the first talks after the well-known incident of shooting down of a Russian warplane over the Syrian border and after a long period of time this is our first meeting face to face. Moreover, after the coup attempt on July 15 in Turkey, I have made my first visit abroad to Russia."

The Turkish President said they found a similar position on normalizing their bilateral ties, and agreed to use their capacities to maintain regional stability and confront all kinds of crises.

The meeting between the two leaders was their first since Turkey downed one of Russia's warplanes last November, which sparked a diplomatic crisis as well as economic sanctions from the latter.

For CRI, I'm Victor Ning.