Turkish PM to visit Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina![]() August 31, 2012 - 17:38 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will pay consecutive visits to Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina next month, Hurriyet Daily News reported. In Baku and Kyiv, he will co-chair meetings of the high-level strategic cooperation councils established with these countries. While in Sarajevo, he will receive an award named after the founder of Sarajevo, Isa Beg Ishakovic. During the visit to Kyiv, Erdoğan plans to hold talks in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on and attend the ninth annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES). Partner news U.S. officials say they want to advance efforts to start talks between the Syrian government and opposition leaders. The international conference, backed by Russia and the U.S., aims to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State's top spokesperson, was expected to be nominated the post. Alkhatib said Assad should respond within 20 days and that he should then be given a month to dissolve parliament. Partner news |