"The topic is on the agenda, relevant work is underway, and relevant contacts are being made," RBK quoted him as saying.
Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Ankara continues talks with all parties regarding the systems purchased from Russia.
Ankara knows that it cannot move the S-400s outside the country without Moscow's consent, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the UN General Assembly, specifying that no corresponding requests had been received.
"But such possibilities exist, only with our consent. If the country to which these systems will be sent is friendly," Lavrov added.
In July, Bloomberg reported that Turkey was trying to obtain Russia's permission to resell the S-400 systems delivered to it in 2019 to a third country, in order to free itself from US sanctions and return to the US programme for supplying fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets. According to the agency, Ankara approached Moscow with such a request before the July NATO summit in the Turkish capital.
At the same time, the newspaper Hürriyet wrote that Turkey had agreed to sell the S-400s purchased from Russia to Qatar or the UAE.
It will be recalled that Russia and Turkey signed an agreement worth $2.5 billion in the autumn of 2017 for the supply to Ankara of four battalions of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system. In early November 2019, Russia delivered the final batch of S-400 components to Turkey ahead of schedule. After that, the parties continued to discuss the terms of delivery of an additional batch.
Kremlin confirms contacts on possible resale of S-400 systems delivered to Turkey
The issue of transferring S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems from Turkey to one of the friendly countries is on the agenda, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
