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    TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER IN ARMENIA PLEADS FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION

    Anadolu Agency
    April 15 2009
    Turkey

    Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Thursday Black Sea Economic
    Cooperation (BSEC) was the backbone of regional stability and the
    most practical mechanism in containing political risks and conflicts.

    Delivering a speech at the 20th BSEC Foreign Ministers Council in
    Armenian capital Yerevan, Babacan said with such perspective, Turkey
    strongly supported BSEC.

    Commenting on Turkey's position regarding the global financial crisis,
    Babacan said the dimensions of the crisis made regional and global
    coordination all more important.

    Babacan said enhancing the cooperation among BSEC members, which
    gave way to concrete projects like ring and sea highways, would be
    beneficial for all members.

    Reiterating Turkey's offer to host the Joint Technical Secretariat
    of the Sea Highway Project, Babacan said Turkey, with its coasts in
    both the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, was the most suitable
    candidate.

    Babacan urged the private sector and the businessmen to participate
    more actively in activities of BSEC, noting that visa practices set
    an obstacle in the way of interaction between private sectors of
    different countries.

    He said Turkey favoured a closer relation between BSEC and the EU.

    Babacan later separately met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
    Lavrov and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammad Guliev.
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