Foreign Correspondence

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Putin is also going to Turkey. He had to suspend his trip to Turkey when Bush murdered the Russian school children at Beslan.

Right before Putin was to leave for Turkey to discuss among other things the building of a Russian controlled Trans-Thracian pipeline what are believed to be secessionist Chechen rebels have seized control of a Russian school taking hostage about 400 people _ half of them children _ and threatening to blow up the building forcing Putin to cancel his two-day state visit to Ankara much to the delight of the United States.
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President Putin Of Russia Due To Turkey
Anadolu Agency: 11/23/2004
MOSCOW (AA) - President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation will pay a state visit to Turkey between December 5th and 6th.
During his two-day visit to Turkey, President Putin will meet President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul and Turkish businessmen. President Sezer and President Putin will sign four agreements and joint political declaration. Putin was scheduled to visit Turkey between September 2nd and 3rd. However, his visit was postponed when a group of armed militants held hostage more than a thousand people, mostly children, in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia.
President Putin will become the first Russian president paying a state visit to Turkey after 32 years. Nikolay Podgorny, who served as titular head of former state of the Soviet Union, paid the highest level of visit to Turkey in 1973.
A proposed Turkish pipeline for Russian oil and energy cooperation between the two countries are the topics likely to be high on the agenda of President Putin's meetings in Ankara.
Mutual trade volume between Turkey and Russia, which had been just 200 million U.S. dollars 15 years ago, currently reached to 8 billion U.S. dollars.
''Blue Stream'' natural gas pipeline has further strengthen economic and commercial relations between the two countries. Moscow also aims to extend the pipeline to Israel.
On the other hand, Russia is the second country sending most tourists to Turkey after Germany.
Issues such as Chechen separatists and terrorist organization of PKK/KADEK are also expected to taken up during President Putin's talks in Ankara.
(UK-ULG)

2004-11-23


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