ANKARA: Turkish FM Meets Armenian Counterpart In Davos

TURKISH FM MEETS ARMENIAN COUNTERPART IN DAVOS

Jan 29 2009
Turkey

The Turkish foreign minister met his Armenian counterpart in Davos,
Switzerland on Wednesday.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ali Babacan had a meeting with Armenian
Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian in Davos on the sidelines of the
annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

"I will have another meeting with Nalbandian later," Babacan told
reporters.

Babacan said that he had met Nalbandian for five or six times since
a national soccer game between the two countries in September 2008.

The Turkish foreign minister said that Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to meet Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev on Friday, and Armenian President Serzh Sargsian was also
demanding a meeting.

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