Turkey tries to create a synergy among neighboring and surrounding countries for Afghanistan

ISTANBUL (A.A) - 10.05.2011 - Turkey's foreign minister met representatives of countries neighboring or surrounding Afghanistan over a working breakfast in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Ministers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as United Nations (UN) Special Representative for Afghanistan Staffan De Mistura attended the working breakfast hosted by Ahmet Davutoglu.
The working breakfast took place at the Hilton Istanbul on the sidelines of the Fourth UN Conference of the Least Developed Countries.
Diplomats said Turkey, which was attaching importance to settlement of lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan, was therefore trying to create a synergy among countries neighboring and surrounding Afghanistan.
Turkey is also trying to encourage those countries to cooperate in order to contribute to Afghanistan.
In this context, Ankara thinks that further development of common principles and vision stated in the Istanbul Declaration following the "Istanbul Conference on Afghanistan" on January 26, 2010, will constitute the basis for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan.