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    Moscow Supports Turkey For Cyprus

    Zaman, Turkey
    May 21 2004

    Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, currently in Moscow attending a
    series of meetings as part of the Organization of Islamic Conference
    (OIC) Troika, secured Russia's full support of Turkey in the Cyprus
    issue.

    Gul met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and requested
    that Russia, as a United Nations (UN) Security Council member, support
    the lifting of the international sanctions imposed on Turkish Republic
    of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Gul, talking about the meeting afterwards,
    conveyed that Lavrov said Russia supports the removal of TRNC sanctions
    because establishing trade relations and ending the economic isolation
    of TRNC is the right thing to do.

    Gul added that Russian companies would not act as obstacles to ending
    TRNC's isolation. Russian companies have investments totaling over
    US$40 billion in the Cypriot Greek side.

    Gul, the first Turkish Foreign Minister to visit Moscow in eight
    years, said that he and Lavrov discussed the Georgian issue and that
    the both Turkey and Russia reached a consensus on the Adzharia issue.

    Lavrov also thanked Gul for supporting Russian membership to OIC. The
    Nagarno Karabag issue between Azerbaijan and Armenia was also
    underlined during their talks.

    05.21.2004
    Mirza Cetinkaya
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