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| Turkey PM to visit Iran, warns against sanctions |
| 2009-09-27 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he would visit Iran in October and would bring up the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear program in talks with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Erdogan was speaking to reporters after Western leaders on Friday accused Iran of concealing a nuclear plant it is constructing southwest of Tehran. U.S. President Barack Obama warned Iran it would face "sanctions that bite" if it did not come clean. But Erdogan urged caution. "Those sanctions won't bring about anything good for the people (of Iran)," he said. "So I think we have to be careful." Asked if Turkey, which borders Iran, would support fresh U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, Erdogan said: "Without seeing what would be in the resolution, it's difficult to say. We would look at the text and we would make our contribution and then we would make a decision." |
| Posted by:Fred |