Senegal's president holds talk in Ankara

President Abdullah Gul yesterday received his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade at the Cankaya Presidential Palace. Afterwards, agreements were signed for cultural cooperation as well as technical, scientific and economic cooperation in agriculture between the two countries. At a joint press conference, Gul said that he and Wade had agreed to develop political and economic relations between Turkey and Senegal. Wade also expressed a desire to strengthen bilateral ties, and called on the Turkish private sector to invest in Senegal, which he called the gateway to Africa. Afterwards, Gul hosted a luncheon for Wade, with Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit also in attendance. Wade also met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and they reportedly discussed economic relations between the two countries and Sudan's Darfur issue.