CFK calls for 'peace and global security' during visit to Turkey

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for a “different global order, more just, egalitarian, in order to achieve real peace and global security,” during her speech during the official dinner with Turkish President Adbullah Gül.

During the last official activity in her trip to Turkey, the Head of State drank a toast to “historic integration between both countries and to the great work we are developing in the present towards the future.”

She highlighted the “important cultural relation between both countries after thousands of people who emigrated from the Ottoman Empire.”

The President attended to the dinner with the ministers, national legislators and her daughter, Florencia.

Earlier, while attending a press conference with her Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gül, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that “governments have the obligation to provide the population with answers in order to improve their quality of life.”

“These are times of profound transformations,” she assured while addressing the Turkish audience.

Mrs. Fernández de Kirchner had previously visited and offered a flower wreath to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first president and founder of the country.

Both national hymns were sung during the ceremony, and both presidents saluted the Turkish troop.

During a speech, and before meeting with him, the President praised the political and economical relationship with Turkey.

“After the 2008 crisis, this is a time of opportunity for countries with rising economies such as Argentina and Turkey. Besides the two of us being member countries of the G20, this heralds a time and a world of change. I’d rather say we’re going through times of change instead of times of crisis, like others like to say. Because these are opportunities for other countries that didn’t have the chance to be protagonists in the global stage before,” she explained.

She said her presence in Ankara was due to her “responsibility to help Argentina become increasingly integrated with all countries in the world.”

“People demand their representatives for results, so we must provide them with responses that improve their quality of life.”

Tomorrow she is scheduled to meet with several local businessmen in Istambul before flying back to Argentina on Saturday.

Her visit to Turkey was her last stop in a Middle Eastern tour that also included Qatar and Kuwait.