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FM DAVUTOGLU: PALESTINE WILL BE FULL MEMBER OF UN
Today's Zaman
Sept 27 2011
Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paused to express his desire
to see Palestine as a full member of the UN at its meeting next year
amidst an intense schedule of international meetings and bilateral
discussions.
"I told Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki that Palestine
would take its place as a full member of the UN in the following
year," Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency on
Tuesday, as he relayed the events of the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in New York on Monday.
Davutoglu said CICA meetings on tourism and culture will also
increase in frequency in the future, and the forum will work to
bolster confidence-building measures.
"We also discussed bringing together countries that have tension with
each other in a joint platform, and creating a confidence-building
measure structure from [the] base to the top," he said and added that
Israel, Iran and Palestine were present at the meeting and he called
on Azerbaijan and Armenia to do the same and come together against
all odds.
Davutoglu remarked that he hopes the CICA will take a larger role among
the intergovernmental bodies of the world and expressed a hope that the
international forum will be "one of the most important organizations
of in the near future. Turkey currently holds the presidency of the
CICA, a position which rotates among members, and will continue to
hold it until June 2012. Turkey, under the auspices of Davutoglu
himself, co-chaired with Cambodia the joint ministerial meeting of
the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and the Association of
South Asian Nations (ASEAN) three days earlier at a first-time summit
on the sidelines of the UN meeting.
"ECO and ASEAN countries met for the first time [on the sidelines] of
the UN, and they decided to gather together from now on," Davutoglu
said on Tuesday and announced that Turkey might host the next joint
meeting. Turkey is also scheduled to host a broadened regional summit
on Afghanistan in İstanbul on Nov. 2, according to the Anatolia
news agency. Davutoglu also engaged in bilateral meetings with senior
officials from a number of countries. He met with the vice president
of the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party, Nechirvan Barzani, on Monday
and discussed cooperation against terrorism and in developments
in the Middle East. He spoke with his counterparts from Thailand,
Ethiopia, Algeria, Brazil and Singapore, and is scheduled to meet UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday. Davutoglu also called for
support in Turkey's planned candidacy in the UN Security Council for
the 2012-2016 term, the Anatolia new agency noted. He is expected to
leave New York on Wednesday.
Today's Zaman
Sept 27 2011
Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paused to express his desire
to see Palestine as a full member of the UN at its meeting next year
amidst an intense schedule of international meetings and bilateral
discussions.
"I told Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki that Palestine
would take its place as a full member of the UN in the following
year," Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency on
Tuesday, as he relayed the events of the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in New York on Monday.
Davutoglu said CICA meetings on tourism and culture will also
increase in frequency in the future, and the forum will work to
bolster confidence-building measures.
"We also discussed bringing together countries that have tension with
each other in a joint platform, and creating a confidence-building
measure structure from [the] base to the top," he said and added that
Israel, Iran and Palestine were present at the meeting and he called
on Azerbaijan and Armenia to do the same and come together against
all odds.
Davutoglu remarked that he hopes the CICA will take a larger role among
the intergovernmental bodies of the world and expressed a hope that the
international forum will be "one of the most important organizations
of in the near future. Turkey currently holds the presidency of the
CICA, a position which rotates among members, and will continue to
hold it until June 2012. Turkey, under the auspices of Davutoglu
himself, co-chaired with Cambodia the joint ministerial meeting of
the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and the Association of
South Asian Nations (ASEAN) three days earlier at a first-time summit
on the sidelines of the UN meeting.
"ECO and ASEAN countries met for the first time [on the sidelines] of
the UN, and they decided to gather together from now on," Davutoglu
said on Tuesday and announced that Turkey might host the next joint
meeting. Turkey is also scheduled to host a broadened regional summit
on Afghanistan in İstanbul on Nov. 2, according to the Anatolia
news agency. Davutoglu also engaged in bilateral meetings with senior
officials from a number of countries. He met with the vice president
of the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party, Nechirvan Barzani, on Monday
and discussed cooperation against terrorism and in developments
in the Middle East. He spoke with his counterparts from Thailand,
Ethiopia, Algeria, Brazil and Singapore, and is scheduled to meet UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday. Davutoglu also called for
support in Turkey's planned candidacy in the UN Security Council for
the 2012-2016 term, the Anatolia new agency noted. He is expected to
leave New York on Wednesday.