Erdoğan: We will continue mediating for just solutions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a video message to the 9th Istanbul Mediation Conference, hosted by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan at the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel and Conference Center. The conference was held under the theme “Partnerships for Peace and New Perspectives: Mediation in a Changing World.”

Erdoğan said Türkiye is working to open the path to peace through its mediation efforts, citing prisoner exchanges between Russia and Ukraine and its work on the African continent. He noted that this year's UN General Assembly was held under the theme “Restoring Trust,” and said millions of people in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and other crisis regions who had placed their hopes in the United Nations are deeply disappointed.

Erdoğan argued that a structure in which the will of more than 190 countries depends on the whim of five countries can be neither just nor fully able to establish trust. Türkiye does not accept an international policy built on mistrust, he said, adding that it will continue to bring parties together for peace, mediate for just solutions and take responsibility.