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Today's Zaman, Turkey
July 24 2011
ErdoÄ?an to visit Baku on Wednesday
24 July 2011, Sunday / EMINE KART , Ä°STANBUL
In line with Ankara's diplomatic conventions, following last week's
trip to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), which marked
his first visit abroad as head of the new government, Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an will pay his second visit abroad to neighboring
country Azerbaijan.
ErdoÄ?an will pay a one-day working visit to Baku on Wednesday,
officials from the prime minister's office told Today's Zaman on
Sunday.
ErdoÄ?an's visit comes days after US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's visit to Ä°stanbul in mid-July. During talks with Turkey's
leaders, Clinton reportedly called for ratification of two protocols
signed in 2009 with Armenia for normalization of bilateral relations.
Clinton urged Ankara not only `to support and advance the protocols'
stuck in the Turkish Parliament but also to get into wider contact
with Armenia to strengthen confidence so that it further helps to
restore diplomatic relations, a US official was quoted as saying by
ITAR-TASS.
`Why should only the Armenia-Turkey border be open? Why not open the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border? There is one reason and obstacle to the
opening of the borders. It is Armenia moving towards a constructive
position to leave occupied Azerbaijani lands and thus solve the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Therefore, we don't believe that US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is aware of these matters or
understands them. We see this as pressure not only on Turkey but also
Armenia,' Ali Hasanov, the head of the public and political affairs
department in the Azerbaijani presidential administration, was quoted
as saying over the weekend in response to Clinton.
From: Baghdasarian
July 24 2011
ErdoÄ?an to visit Baku on Wednesday
24 July 2011, Sunday / EMINE KART , Ä°STANBUL
In line with Ankara's diplomatic conventions, following last week's
trip to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), which marked
his first visit abroad as head of the new government, Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an will pay his second visit abroad to neighboring
country Azerbaijan.
ErdoÄ?an will pay a one-day working visit to Baku on Wednesday,
officials from the prime minister's office told Today's Zaman on
Sunday.
ErdoÄ?an's visit comes days after US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's visit to Ä°stanbul in mid-July. During talks with Turkey's
leaders, Clinton reportedly called for ratification of two protocols
signed in 2009 with Armenia for normalization of bilateral relations.
Clinton urged Ankara not only `to support and advance the protocols'
stuck in the Turkish Parliament but also to get into wider contact
with Armenia to strengthen confidence so that it further helps to
restore diplomatic relations, a US official was quoted as saying by
ITAR-TASS.
`Why should only the Armenia-Turkey border be open? Why not open the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border? There is one reason and obstacle to the
opening of the borders. It is Armenia moving towards a constructive
position to leave occupied Azerbaijani lands and thus solve the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Therefore, we don't believe that US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is aware of these matters or
understands them. We see this as pressure not only on Turkey but also
Armenia,' Ali Hasanov, the head of the public and political affairs
department in the Azerbaijani presidential administration, was quoted
as saying over the weekend in response to Clinton.
From: Baghdasarian