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    ARMENIAN LEADER SAYS MEETING WITH TURKISH COUNTERPART "USEFUL"

    Armenian Second TV Channel
    May 8 2009

    [Presenter] [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan also met with Turkish
    President Abdullah Gul in Prague. This was the second one after the
    meeting in Yerevan [in September 2008.] The leaders of the two states
    have positively assessed the Prague meeting and decided to respect
    all previous agreements and move forward in the direction of settling
    Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions and in reasonable
    periods of [time].

    [Correspondent reports over video of the meeting] Past midnight
    by Yerevan's time [past 1900 gmt] and at 2230 by Prague's time
    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Turkish President Abdullah Gul
    arrived at the Mandarin hotel, where the meeting of the Armenian and
    Turkish presidents was planned. This is the second meeting of the
    presidents after Gul was in Yerevan in September [2008] at Sargsyan's
    invitation. The foreign ministers of the two countries also took part
    in this meeting. After the meeting the sides positively assessed the
    Prague meeting and said that an agreement was achieved to respect all
    previously achieved agreements aiming to move forward Armenian-Turkish
    relations without preconditions and in reasonable periods of time.

    [Sargsyan speaking in Armenian to journalists] Useful - we agreed to
    respect our agreements.

    [Two unidentified journalists speaking in Armenian] What are those
    agreements? Are there preconditions?

    [Sargsyan speaking in Armenian to journalists] It is excluded that
    there be any preconditions, it is simply excluded.
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