Arinc, Erdogan And Gul To Visit Washington In May And June

WASHINGTON (AA) - Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc will visit Washington in the end of May and Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet U.S. President George W. Bush at White House on June 8th.
     Sources said that Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul will meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on June 8th.
     Arinc will visit Washington between May 24th and 27th as the guest of Dennis Hastert, Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives. Arinc will also attend a reception which will be hosted in his honor by Hastert.
     Arinc will deliver a speech at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He will also meet representatives of Jewish institutions in Washington. Arinc will then proceed to Chicago to meet representatives of Turkish society.
     Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Gul will attend the meeting of Organization of American States (OAS) in Florida between June 5th and 8th. He will hold meetings on Turkey's membership to UN Security Council.
     Gul will then accompany Erdogan in Washington.
     On June 8th, Erdogan will meet Bush while Gul will have a meeting with Rice.
     Erdogan's meetings in Washington will end on June 12th.

2005-05-10