ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan will host British Foreign Secretary David Miliband as his first foreign guest following his appointment as foreign minister.
According to diplomatic sources, Babacan is expected to pay his first visit abroad to Portugual next week to represent Turkey at the unofficial foreign ministers' meeting of EU member countries to be held on September 7th and 8th.
Babacan is expected to attend the second day of the meetings that is open to candidate countries.
Babacan is also expected to pay a one-day visit to Bulgaria to attend Southeastern Europe countries foreign ministers' meeting to be held in mid-September.
He is also scheduled to travel to the United States to attend UN General Assembly meetings that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to attend.