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Remarks With Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Gul Before Their Meeting

Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Washington, DC
February 6, 2007

Secretary Rice meets with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Gul. State Department photo by Michael Gross.SECRETARY 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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Released on February 6, 2007

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