ANKARA - European Parliament President Pat Cox will come to Turkey as the guest of Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc between March 1 and 4.
Cox will meet with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul and Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal.
Cox will also have meetings in Istanbul and Canakkale.
Thomas Weston, the special coordinator of the U.S. State Department for Cyprus, will come to Ankara after completing his meetings in Cyprus and Athens. Weston will have meetings in Foreign Ministry on March 3.
Gul will meet with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on March 3 in Istanbul. Straw will attend a ceremony to be held at British Consulate General in Istanbul.
U.S. State Department Undersecretary Marc Grossman will visit Ankara within ''Big Middle East'' project of the United States aiming to support democratic reforms in Middle East countries. Grossman who will come to Ankara on March 4 will search for cooperation opportunities of Washington and Ankara for supporting reform process in the region.
The European Union (EU) Troika will have meetings in Ankara on March 8.
The delegation will comprise of Foreign Minister Brian Cowen of current EU Term President Ireland, Foreign Minister Bernard Bot of next EU Term President the Netherlands and EU Commissioner for Enlargement Guenter Verheugen.
Meanwhile, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi is expected to pay a visit to Ankara on March 11.
(GC-Öª) 28.02.2004