Remarks With Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Gul Before Their Meeting Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC February 6, 2007SECRETARY RICE: And I can just say welcome to my colleague, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul. We've met a number of times and Turkey is a strategic ally, a global partner, shares our values. And we have a great deal to talk about today, so I look forward to working with you and talking to you, but thanks for being here.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER GUL: Thank you very much for this invitation. It's a great pleasure for me to be here. As you said, we are a good friend and we have strategic issues of our relations based on the values. We have many positive common agenda that will have all these issues and continue.
SECRETARY RICE: Thank you very much.
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