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Turkish president urges to solve disputes before they grow into clashes.
ANKARA, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - President of Turkey Abdullah Gul, who is currently on a visit to Kazakhstan, on Tuesday urged to spare no effort to settle any disputable issues in the Asian region before they grow into serious conflicts.
"Up to 90 percent of world problems emerge in Asia and the Caucasus.
It is vital to have them solved before they aggravate, for in case of wars
or clashes it becomes ever more difficult to solve them," he said and
stressed the importance of diplomatic approaches to such issues.
The Turkish president highly appreciated Kazakhstan's OSCE
chairmanship, describing it as "extremely successful and well-balanced."
He also expressed confidence that the forthcoming OSCE summit meeting in
Astana would help find ways to settle a number of regional conflicts.
The Turkish president also praised the role of the Conference on
Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, the next summit
meeting of which will be held in Istanbul. "It is vital to take measures
and solve problems by diplomatic and political means, and through
building-up trust. This is what the OSCE and the Conference and doing," he
noted. Problems, in his words, emerge "from Afghanistan to Iraq, they
exist between Pakistan and India." "In the Middle East, there are serious
problems in Iran. The summit meeting of the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence-Building Measures in Asia will help to gather those nations
that have no venue for such a meeting other than the United Nations. The
Turkish diplomacy will seek to do its best," President Gul said.
Touching on the Turkish-Kazakh bilateral relations, the Turkish
president said that together with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan
Nazarbayev they had set a goal to bring the trade turnover from the
current three billion U.S. dollars to 10 billion U.S. dollars a year.
According to the Turkish president, Kazakhstan is using the
Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline to pump its oil abroad. "The pipeline will
soon be used even more extensively by the Kazakh side over growing oil
production in the Caspian region," he noted.
"Up to 90 percent of world problems emerge in Asia and the Caucasus.
It is vital to have them solved before they aggravate, for in case of wars
or clashes it becomes ever more difficult to solve them," he said and
stressed the importance of diplomatic approaches to such issues.
The Turkish president highly appreciated Kazakhstan's OSCE
chairmanship, describing it as "extremely successful and well-balanced."
He also expressed confidence that the forthcoming OSCE summit meeting in
Astana would help find ways to settle a number of regional conflicts.
The Turkish president also praised the role of the Conference on
Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, the next summit
meeting of which will be held in Istanbul. "It is vital to take measures
and solve problems by diplomatic and political means, and through
building-up trust. This is what the OSCE and the Conference and doing," he
noted. Problems, in his words, emerge "from Afghanistan to Iraq, they
exist between Pakistan and India." "In the Middle East, there are serious
problems in Iran. The summit meeting of the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence-Building Measures in Asia will help to gather those nations
that have no venue for such a meeting other than the United Nations. The
Turkish diplomacy will seek to do its best," President Gul said.
Touching on the Turkish-Kazakh bilateral relations, the Turkish
president said that together with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan
Nazarbayev they had set a goal to bring the trade turnover from the
current three billion U.S. dollars to 10 billion U.S. dollars a year.
According to the Turkish president, Kazakhstan is using the
Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline to pump its oil abroad. "The pipeline will
soon be used even more extensively by the Kazakh side over growing oil
production in the Caspian region," he noted.
