Turkey And Afghanistan To Cooperate In Agriculture

ANKARA - Turkey and Afghanistan signed a memorandum of understanding envisaging cooperation in agriculture, sources told the A.A on Thursday.
Releasing a statement, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that Turkish Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister Sami Guclu and Afghan Agriculture and Livestock Minister Seyyed Hussain Anwari signed the memorandum.
Under the memorandum of understanding, a Turkish agriculture expert will be sent in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the two sides decided to speed up preparatory works for a ''Protocol of Technical, Scientific and Economic Cooperation in Agriculture''. The protocol is expected to be signed by Turkish and Afghan ministers in December of 2004.
(UK-ULG) 05.08.2004