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.Officialssay wide range of issues
stretching from bilateral ties to
Somalia discussed
Turkish
Daily News
WASHINGTON-Turkish Prime Minister Tansu
Çiller met with US President Bill Clinton on Friday
on the second day of her official visit to this country.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Çetin, who accompanied
Çil.lerduring her meeting with Clinton, ~ame.togetherwlth
US Secretary of State WarrenChnstopher
prior to the meeting at the White House.
Ciller's meeting with Clinton, lasted for two hours
and included discussions over lunch. Sources close to
the meeting said high on the agenda of the talks was'
the situation in Somalia, Iraq, Middle East, Bosnia
Herze~ovina and the other republics Of the former YugoslaVia.
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On the bilaterallevel subjecis concentrated on were
the need to enhance the pohtical relations between the
two countries, increase bilateral' trade and expand the
cooperation in the defence field.
After lunc.hing with Clinton, Ciller hel~ meetings
with the Chairman of the World Bank leWIS, Preston,
Deputy US Treasurer Roger Altman, l)S Secretary of
Defense Les Aspin and the acting Chairman of the International
Money FoundationRichard Erb respectively.
On Thursday Çiller had met with members of the
environment that both Turkey and
the United States find themselves in
ÇiIIer told reporters in the plane
bringing her to Washington that one
of the main purposes of her visit was
for the two countries to understand
each others' place in this environment
and to open new doors to