Barack Obama Will Meet Tayyip Erdogan In Washington

BARACK OBAMA WILL MEET TAYYIP ERDOGAN IN WASHINGTON

Tert.am
12:47 09.04.10

US President Barack Obama and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan will hold a meeting in the sidelines of a World
Nuclear Security Summit to be held in Washington from April 12-13,
reports Turkish local news agency Anadolu.

To date it had been not clear whether or not Obama would meet Erdogan.

Turkish media reports that Erdogan will hold meetings in Washington
also with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, as well as with the
leaders of Russia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, China and Ukraine.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu,
as well as the Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz will leave for
Washington on April 11.

Davutoglu is expected also meet his American counterpart Hilary
Clinton.

Turkish local daily Radikal, in turn, reports that currently necessary
measures are being taken to prepare the Obama-Sargsyan-Erdogan
tripartite meeting in Washington.

Earlier the White House had said that no such meeting was planned.