Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha voiced his country's support for Turkey's bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council yesterday, while Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated Ankara's unwavering support for Albania's bid to integrate into NATO.
The two prime ministers spoke at a joint press conference following their meeting in Tirana. Erdoğan said Turkey would loudly voice its support for Albania's entry into NATO as well as Macedonia's and Croatia's entry into the transatlantic body during an upcoming NATO summit to be held early next month in Bucharest. The two prime ministers mutually thanked each other for Ankara's support of Albania's NATO bid and for Tirana's support of Ankara's bid for one of the non-permanent seats allocated to the Western European and Others Group on the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2009-2010 term.
Erdoğan also pledged to personally exert efforts for the inclusion of Albania in a project that will carry natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe. Last month, Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Güler had already announced that Turkey and Switzerland were assessing the construction of a new natural gas pipeline, named the "Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) Project," that would originate in Turkey and cut across the Balkans, Albania and Italy. (Todayszaman)
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