ISTANBUL - Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister Osman Pepe left for Netherlands early on Friday as official guest of Dutch State Secretary for Environment Pieter Van Geel.
Sources said that Pepe would attend an unofficial meeting of the EU Environment Council on ''environment as economic opportunity'' in Maastricht.
Pepe is expected to return to Turkey on July 18.
(MS-AÖ) 16.07.2004