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Article: Greece and Turkey Set Up Means to Resolve Differences
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- The Washington Post
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- February 1, 1988
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Greece and Turkey formally agreed today to work together to
resolve differences over the Aegean Sea and other matters that have
brought the two nations to the brink of war twice in the past two
decades.
The confidence-building measures that the two historic enemies
accepted today include annual summit meetings, a direct telephone
hotline for their leaders, establishmentof joint committees to
negotiate solutions to disputes and greatly increased exchanges of
visits by Greek and Turkish officials, businessmen and other
citizens.
The agreement was described in a joint communique issued after
two days of talks between Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal and his
Greek counterpart, Andreas ...