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Ankara's Foreign Relations Concern
by Cumhuriyet - 01-04-01
Posted: Sunday, January 07, 2001 07:57 pm CST

Turkey expects to have active days in the foreign policy this year as well. It was stated that Ankara was continuing its initiatives so that the claims concerning the so-called Armenian genocide will not be brought on the agenda in the new administration of the US. During the weekly press conference, Deputy Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Huseyin Dirioz evaluated the news that the Armenian lobby in the US will resume its initiatives to bring the so-called Armenian genocide on the agenda again. Dirioz said, "We are continuing our initiatives concerning the issue. Relations between Turkey and the US are improving day by day and we expect this positive development to continue." Ankara will have an intensive traffic in terms of foreign policy in January. Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Jiaxuan Tang will arrive in Turkey this weekend and then the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland and Hungary will visit Ankara. Meanwhile, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ismail Cem will visit the Islamic countries in January. Cem will visit Sudan on 9 January. He is also expected to visit Libya and Pakistan.

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