Washington, United States.
The United States canceled its deployment this week of the warships in the Black Sea, through its Bosphorus Straits and the Dardanelles, in full tension between Ukraine and Russia, reported this Wednesday Turkish officials and media.
Turkish diplomatic sources said that the passage of the first ship did not take place this Wednesday as planned.
According to the state news agency, Anadolu, which cites Turkish officials, both deployments were canceled and Ankara has not been informed of a possible postponement.
Turkish authorities announced last week that they had been notified by United States what two warships were going to cross the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, on 14 and 15 April, towards the Black Sea.
The Montreal Convention, which dates from 1936, guarantees the free navigation in the Turkish straits, but the landlocked countries in the Black Sea they must announce 15 days before the passage of their ships that they cannot remain in these waters more than 21 days.
The announcement of this deployment took place in a context of tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the decision to send warships fue welcome as a sign of support Washington to Kiev.
The cancellation of this maneuver announced by Turks it happens a day after a telephone conversation between the American president, Joe Biden, i its Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
see: Russia deploys its warships in the Black Sea ahead of the arrival of US ships
During the call, Biden asked the Russian president “Lower tensions” in Ukraine and proposed a meeting in a third country “in the coming months,” the White House.
The accumulation in the last days of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border, and on the Crimean peninsula what Moscow annexed in 2014, has generated concern in Western countries.
these troop deployments occur in a context of new incidents between Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists east of Kiev Ukraine.