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Abdullah Gul: â€œWe will continue dialogue with Armeniaâ€ â€“ PHOTOSESSION

Abdullah Gul: â€œWe will continue dialogue with Armeniaâ€ â€“ <font color=red>PHOTOSESSION </font>

15 October 2009 08:45 (UTC +04:00)

Bursa. Mayis Alizadeh â€“ APA. Bursa Governor Shahabettin Harput gave a dinner party in honor of Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, who visited Bursa at the invitation of Turkish president Abdullah Gul to watch the football game between Turkey and Armenia. Representatives of the Turkish and foreign media were also invited to the dinner party at Almira Hotel, APA correspondent reports from tha party. Abdullah Gul and Serzh Sargsyan attended the dinner party after the football game and talked with the representatives of Armenian community of Turkey. Gul told journalists that they overcame very long distance over the past 13 months. â€œMany couldnâ€™t believe that we can melt ice between the two countries. We are happy that we could do thatâ€. When the Turkish president was asked â€œWill this way lead him to Nobel Prize in Oslo?â€ he said he didnâ€™t concern about the awards. â€œWe would like to do our work successfully to bring peace and welfare to the region. Therefore we will continue dialogue between the countriesâ€.

Milliyyet newspaperâ€™s columnist Taha Akyol told Serzh Sargsyan that he welcomed his visit to Turkey and supported this process heartily. Serzh Sargsyan left the question â€œDid you take a way of no return?â€ unanswered and with a smile. When Sargsyan was asked â€œWhat do you think about Charles Aznavourâ€™s or other singersâ€™ concerts in Turkey?â€ he said that many of them saw the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations without pre-conditions as normal. â€œThere is nothing better than the progress of processes without outside interferenceâ€. APA correspondent asked Sargsyan: â€œYou seem satisfied with the developments. How will this process impact on the liberation of Nagorno Karabakh from the occupation?â€ Sargsyan said: â€œWe are busy with more serious work, for example with the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relationsâ€. The Turkish and Armenian presidents left the APAâ€™s question â€œWill you send joint message to Azerbaijan?â€ unanswered. Abdullah Gul asked Sargsyan, who will follow to Kazakhstan, to deliver his greetings to Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. The Turkish businessman Sharik Tara told Sargsyan that he intended to invest energy projects in Armenia in future. Some leaders of Jewish community of Turkey, sport minister Faruk Ozak, AKP parliamentarians from Bursa, as well as MHP MP from Ankara Togrul Turkesh also attended the dinner party.