Erdoğan says will attend opening ceremony of Sarp border gate this month

09 May 2011, Monday

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he will attend a ceremony to mark the opening of a modernized border gate with Georgia at the end of this month.

Erdoğan met with Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri on the margins of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) on Monday to discuss bilateral ties between the two neighbors, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Erdoğan told his Georgian counterpart that he is planning to attend the opening ceremony of the newly modernized Sarp border gate on May 31.

Erdoğan also welcomed the Georgian authorities’ decision to release 13 Turkish nationals who were serving prison terms in Georgia.

Finally, the prime ministers discussed the mutual restoration and protection of cultural sites.

Source: Today's Zaman.
Link: http://www.todayszaman.com/news-243426-erdogan-says-will-attend-opening-ceremony-of-sarp-border-gate-this-month.html.