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GUL ACCEPTS ARMENIAN INVITATION
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Sept 4 2008
Turkey
Armenia and Turkey will play against each other in the Armenian capital
Yerevan on Sept. 6 in a qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul accepted Armenian President Serzh
Sargsian's invitation to watch together the 2010 World Cup qualifying
round game that would be played between Turkey and Armenia in Yerevan
on September 6th, the Presidential Press Center said on Wednesday.
A statement released by the center said Sargsian invited President
Gul to Yerevan for the World Cup qualifying match between the two
countries.
Important developments which concerned especially the people in
Caucasus have taken place in the recent period and opportunities
which came out in this period should not be missed, the statement said.
"Such a visit can contribute to a brand new friendly atmosphere in
the region," it stated.
Turkey severed diplomatic relations with Armenia in protest against
Yerevan's occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh region over which Armenia
attacked Turkey's ally Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s.
Armenia and Turkey will play against each other in the Armenian capital
Yerevan on Sept. 6 in a qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
"We believe that this match will be instrumental in removing the
barriers blocking the rapprochment between the two peoples with common
history and prepare a new ground," a statement on the president's
official website said.
"We hope that this will be an opportunity for the two peoples to
understand each other better," it said.
www.worldbulletin.net
Sept 4 2008
Turkey
Armenia and Turkey will play against each other in the Armenian capital
Yerevan on Sept. 6 in a qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul accepted Armenian President Serzh
Sargsian's invitation to watch together the 2010 World Cup qualifying
round game that would be played between Turkey and Armenia in Yerevan
on September 6th, the Presidential Press Center said on Wednesday.
A statement released by the center said Sargsian invited President
Gul to Yerevan for the World Cup qualifying match between the two
countries.
Important developments which concerned especially the people in
Caucasus have taken place in the recent period and opportunities
which came out in this period should not be missed, the statement said.
"Such a visit can contribute to a brand new friendly atmosphere in
the region," it stated.
Turkey severed diplomatic relations with Armenia in protest against
Yerevan's occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh region over which Armenia
attacked Turkey's ally Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s.
Armenia and Turkey will play against each other in the Armenian capital
Yerevan on Sept. 6 in a qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
"We believe that this match will be instrumental in removing the
barriers blocking the rapprochment between the two peoples with common
history and prepare a new ground," a statement on the president's
official website said.
"We hope that this will be an opportunity for the two peoples to
understand each other better," it said.