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    Europe should learn from us

    Friday, April 29, 2005

    DIPLOMACY

    Yusuf Kanli and Elif Unal Arslan

    ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

    Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has said that the countries adjacent to
    Iraq had managed to speak with a single voice in dealing with their
    troubled neighbor through a series of Turkey-pioneered meetings of
    Iraq's neighbors and emphasized that if the countries of the region had
    acted in the manner that Europe dealt with the former Yugoslavia, there
    would not be a united Iraq today.

    `This is our biggest contribution to Iraq,' he told the Turkish Daily
    News in an exclusive interview, adding, `Europe should take lessons from
    us.'

    The ninth meeting of Iraq's neighbors is to begin in Istanbul today
    with the convening of several high-level officials. Gul will host the
    ministerial-level gathering in Dolmabahce Palace tomorrow. Turkey
    initiated the meetings prior to the U.S invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the
    meetings evolved into exploring ways to help the re-structuring of the
    war-torn country.

    Gul said that the Istanbul meeting would, indeed, be an occasion to
    demonstrate recognition of the new Iraqi administration by the bordering
    countries of the region, as well as an opportunity to demonstrate the
    importance attached by the neighboring countries to Iraq's
    democratization and transparency.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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