(DIP) TURKISH PREMIER SAYS IRAN CANNOT BE IGNORED.ANKARA, Oct 26, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, "Iran cannot be ignored and any attempt to encourage negative approaches to Iran will damage efforts to ensure peace in the region." In an interview with the Al-Jazeera TV, Prime Minister Erdogan said, "we are not in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor presence of weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or in Iran and in our region. But it is not fair and unjust UNJUST. That which is done against the perfect rights of another; that which is against the established law; that which is opposed to a law which is the test of right and wrong. 1 Toull. tit. prel. n. 5; Aust. Jur. 276, n.; Hein. Lec. El. Sec. 1080. to put pressure on Iran while someone else in the region has such weapons. The world must assume a fair attitude. In that case a totaly different environment of confidence will emerge." Asked about Turkey's likely attitude in case of a sanction sanction, in law and ethics, any inducement to individuals or groups to follow or refrain from following a particular course of conduct. All societies impose sanctions on their members in order to encourage approved behavior. or embargo embargo (ĕmbär`gō), prohibition by a country of the departure of ships or certain types of goods from its ports. Instances of confining all domestic ships to port are rare, and the Embargo Act of 1807 is the sole example of this in against Iran, Erdogan said, "an embargo is out of question for the time being. What if those who make a decision to impose embargo on Iran have their own nuclear weapons? This is not fair." "Iran has a long-standing political tradition of its own. You cannot ignore Iran and any attempt to encourage negative approaches to Iran will damage efforts to ensure peace in the region," he said. Upon a question about recent agreements Turkey signed with Syria and Iraq, Prime Minister Erdogan said, "I consider them quite meaningful and good developments. We established a high-level strategic relations council with Syria. We also signed a series of agreements with Iraq to improve our relations in the areas of education, health, trade, security, national defense, agriculture, energy and transportation. These agreements will be beneficial for the three countries." "We also want to set up a high-level strategic relations council with Russia. We made a proposal to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin," he said. Asked whether those efforts were an alternative to the EU, Prime Minister Erdogan said, "they are nothing to do with the EU. We are planning to make similar proposals to Romania and Bulgaria. Our efforts aim at improving our bilateral relations. They will make contributions to our economy. On the other hand, Turkey will form a significant ground when it becomes a member of the EU." (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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