Egemen Bağış, Turkey's chief negotiator for European Union negotiations, said on Tuesday that he would visit Greece next month.
Speaking at a meeting organized by the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey, Bağış said it was a positive sign for bilateral ties that newly elected Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou held his first visit abroad to Turkey. Saying that his predecessor Kostas Karamanlis was too cautious on relations with Turkey, Bağış recalled that it took three and half a years for Karamanlis to visit Turkey.
Bağış said he was set to visit Greece on Nov. 5 with the aim of maintaining the pace set by Papandreou’s Istanbul visit. Papandreou will act also as foreign minister.
Bağış said Papandreou’s efforts when he was foreign minister in the early 2000s with late Turkish Foreign Minister İsmail Cem to reconcile bilateral ties were appreciated.
ΠΗΓΗ: Hürriyet Daily News
Bağış said he was set to visit Greece on Nov. 5 with the aim of maintaining the pace set by Papandreou’s Istanbul visit. Papandreou will act also as foreign minister.
Bağış said Papandreou’s efforts when he was foreign minister in the early 2000s with late Turkish Foreign Minister İsmail Cem to reconcile bilateral ties were appreciated.
ΠΗΓΗ: Hürriyet Daily News