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    RUSSIA'S LAVROV VISITING ANKARA TO DISCUSS ARRAY OF COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES

    Today's Zaman
    01 July 2008

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to arrive in
    Turkey today for an official two-day visit at the invitation of his
    Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.

    Lavrov will discuss Russian-Turkish cooperation within the context
    of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC),
    as well as international issues in other Black Sea formats, Russian
    Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said yesterday in Moscow.

    The ministers will discuss a "wide spectrum of the Russian-Turkish
    cooperation, regional and international issues, including Iraqi and
    Middle East settlement, the situation around the Iranian nuclear
    issue, the situation in Kosovo, the Trans-Caucasus and Central Asia,
    the state of affairs in Cyprus settlement, interaction in the BSEC
    and other current Black Sea formats such as BLACKSEAFOR and Operation
    Black Sea Harmony," Nesterenko said.

    "Interaction in the gas energy sector is developing at an increasing
    tempo. In the light of Turkey's tender for the construction of
    the first nuclear power plant in this country announced this year,
    Russian organizations show interests in establishing cooperation in
    this field," Nesterenko said.

    Both Azerbaijani and Armenian media reports cited Turkish sources
    as saying that settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as well as
    opening of Turkey's border with Armenia would also be on the agenda
    of Lavrov's talks in Ankara.
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