Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
Feb 3 2007

Turkish minister to visit USA on 4 February

Ankara, 3 February: Turkish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime
Minister Abdullah Gul will leave for the United States on Sunday [4
February] to hold a series of talks.

Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials told the Anatolia that
Gul was scheduled to meet US Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in Washington, D.C.

He will also hold talks with US House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos and members of the committee.
Gul will deliver a speech at the German Marshall Fund.

He will proceed to New York on 8 February to meet with United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

Issues such as recent developments in Iraq, and the draft resolution
on so-called Armenian genocide which was submitted to the House of
Representatives will be high on agenda of Gul’s meetings with US
authorities.

Gul is expected to return to Turkey on 9 February.