Swiss Foreign Minister set for two-day visit to Turkey

Agence France Presse — English
March 8, 2005 Tuesday 11:20 AM GMT

ANKARA March 8 – Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey will travel
to Turkey for two days starting March 29, making up for a visit that
was cancelled nearly two years ago, a diplomatic official said.

The minister was scheduled to go to Turkey in September 2003 but the
visit was pushed back by Turkish officials after the Swiss canton of
Vaud qualified as genocide the 1915 massacre of Armenians under the
Ottoman Empire.

Calmy-Rey is set to meet in Ankara with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul.

She will also visit Istanbul and the medieval-walled city of Diyarbakir
in the southeast.