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Turkey's FM arrives in Yemen
[The Source: www.sabanews.net - 17/2/2009]
Turkey's Foreign minister Ali Babacan arrived Tuesday in Yemen on a
two-day
visit during which he will hand President Ali Abdullah Saleh a
letter from his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul. Babacan will meet with Yemeni senior officials to discuss ways to promote bilateral cooperation. In
October and during the fourth round of the Yemeni-Turkish Ministerial
Committee, Turkey said it liked to buy liquefied natural gas from
Yemen. The two sides approved measures to facilitate the entering of Yemeni and Turkish truck drivers into both countries. Turkish
deputy prime minister, head of the Turkish side at the meeting Nazim
Ekren expressed Turkey's readiness to exchange information on and
experiences of energy and renewable energy with Yemen. At the
round Yemen accepted a Turkish proposal regarding its membership in the
UN Land Transport Convention, saying it will consider the proposal in
an effort to facilitate transport between it and Turkey.
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