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    ARMENIA NOT TO SUPPORT TURKEY'S BID FOR OSCE LEADERSHIP POST

    asbarez
    Monday, February 14th, 2011

    Gul and Sarkisian in 2008

    YEREVAN (Combined Sources)-A diplomatic source said that Armenia would
    not support a request from Turkey to support a bid for the highest
    leadership post within the Organization for Security and Cooperation
    in Europe, reported PanArmenian.net.

    The source told the news agency that Armenia provides support to
    friendly countries, saying Turkey was not one. "Turkey has applied
    with a similar request several times before, but was rejected,"
    the source to PanArmenian.net.

    Turkish media reported Monday that Turkish President Abdullah Gul
    was planning to ask President Serzh Sarkisian for Armenia's support
    for Turkey's candidate for the post of secretary general of the OSCE.

    The report, first published by Haberturk, added that Turkey's candidate
    Ersin Ercin would personally hand the letter to Sarkisian.

    This is being characterized by Turkey as a gesture of goodwill
    toward Armenia.

    Ercin faces a challenge from three EU candidates: Ursula Plassnik,
    the former foreign minister of Austria; Lamberto Zannier, a career
    Italian diplomat currently in charge of the U.N. mission in Kosovo; and
    Joao Soares from Portugal, the former head of the OSCE Parliamentary
    Assembly.

    Current OSCE Secretary-General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut's term in
    office is set to expire in 2011.




    From: A. Papazian
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