Babacan: Turkey continues to lobby for Kosovo
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said in Pristina on Tuesday that Turkey would continue to lobby for Kosovo independence at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and other institutions it was a member of.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, January 13, 2009
"Together with the other members of the international community, Turkey treated the Kosovo issue as a pressing matter from the very beginning, and it was one of the first countries that recognized its independence", Babacan said following his talks with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.
He said Ankara was interested in establishing political, economic and cultural cooperation with Kosovo.
Turkey is one of the primary lobbyists for the recognition of Kosovo's unilateral secession among Islamic countries.
It has, however, suffered a series of diplomatic blows on the subject, as Islamic heavyweights such as Indonesia, Iran or Egypt all strongly support Serbia's territorial integrity.
