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    U.S. HOPES GUL WILL ACCEPT ARMENIAN PRESIDENT'S INVITATION

    HYE-TERT
    July 19 2008
    Turkey

    The U.S. administration hopes Turkish President Abdullah Gul
    to accept the invitation of his Armenian counterpart to watch a
    qualifying football game in Yerevan in September, Hurriyet daily
    reports. Officials said if Gul accepts the invitation and visits
    Yerevan to watch the football game between the Turkish and Armenian
    national teams, then this would a "great opening." "We want those
    two neighboring countries to speak to each other, to get closer,
    and to normalize relations between Ankara and Yerevan. We hope
    President Abdullah Gul accepts the invitation and visits Yerevan
    to watch the game," an official was quoted as saying. Armenian
    President Serzh Sargsyan invited in early July Turkish President
    Abdullah Gul to watch the football match in Yerevan between the two
    countries on Sept. 6 for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers to mark "a
    new start in relations". Gul is yet to declare his official decision
    on the invitation as the evaluation of the Turkish foreign ministry
    continues. Turkey is among the first countries that recognized Armenia
    when it declared its independency. "However there is no diplomatic
    relations between two countries, as Armenia presses the international
    community to admit the genocide claims," the newspaper says. However,
    a warm exchange of letters between Sargsyan and Gul in late April
    raised optimism for a fresh initiative to normalize relations, while
    Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan then expressed his hope that
    Sargsyan's election victory will "lead to a new period in relations."
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