KUWAIT - Foreign ministers of Turkey, Britain and Kuwait came together in Kuwait on Tuesday.
The trilateral meeting took place on the sidelines of the expanded conference of the neighboring countries of Iraq.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, British Secretary of Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Muhammad al-Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah did not make any remarks before the meeting.
Babacan also had bilateral talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem and Lynn Pascoe, the United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs.
Pascoe and Babacan debated Cyprus problem in their meeting, diplomatic sources said.
According to diplomatic sources, Pascoe said that the United Nations might be included in a settlement process more if the technical committee process operated in the island.
Babacan arrived in Kuwait on Monday for the foreign ministers` conference. Representatives from UN Security Council, European Commission, Organization of Islamic Conference and Arab League also attended the conference.
In the conference, Babacan said that Turkey wished to see an Iraq which was free of problems and terrorism, and was ready to help Iraq.
The final communique, released at the end of the meeting, condemned acts of terror in Iraq, supported Iraqi government`s increasing efforts in combating terrorism including all efforts to prevent the Iraqi territory from being used as a base for terrorism against neighboring countries.
The neighboring countries initiative was launched in 2003 under the auspices of Turkey. Upon Turkey`s proposal, the process gained international feature in 2007. The first international conference was held in Egypt in May 2007.
(BRC-MS)