TURKEY SAYS NO PLAN FOR TRIPARTITE SUMMIT WITH AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA
Nov 7 2008
Turkey
Several media reports claimed that Turkish President Abdullah Gul would
invite Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh
Sargsian to Istanbul to hold a summit for the solution of problems
in Caucasia.
A foreign ministry spokesman said Friday that Turkey had no efforts
to organize a tripartite summit with the presidents of Azerbaijan
and Armenia.
Several media reports claimed that Turkish President Abdullah Gul would
invite Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh
Sargsian to Istanbul to hold a summit for the solution of problems
in Caucasia.
"Of course, we would be pleased by visits of the presidents of
Azerbaijan and Armenia. But there is no such an effort (to hold a
tripartite summit) at this moment," Burak Ozugergin,spokesman for
the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the A.A.