TURKEY: U.S. warship passes through Bosphorus

Record ID: 206217

  • Title: TURKEY: U.S. warship passes through Bosphorus
  • Date: 10th April 2014
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (APRIL 10, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SHIPS AND BOATS SAILING AT SEA VARIOUS OF USS DONALD COOK SAILING COAST GUARD BOAT VARIOUS OF USS DONALD COOK SAILING PASSENGER SHIP USS DONALD COOK COAST GUARD BOAT VARIOUS OF USS DONALD COOK SAILING UNDER BOSPHORUS BRIDGE BOAT ON SEA USS DONALD COOK
  • Embargoed: 25th April 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAHOP5FQBXLDCB71O8JLQCDYYX
  • Story Text: The US guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook sails through the Bosphorus on its way to the Black Sea, as part of a mission to "reassure NATO allies", the Pentagon says.

    The USS Donald Cook, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, passed through the Bosphorus Strait on its way to the Black Sea on Thursday (April 10).
    Pentagon officials said the ship's presence in the Black Sea was "part of the U.S. commitment to mutual goals in the region".
    While in the Black Sea, the warship will participate in naval exercises in what the Pentagon said was a mission to "reassure NATO allies".
    The warship is heading to the area as preparations get under way for next week's talks between the U.S. and Russia on the Ukraine crisis.
    The meeting will involve U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia, the EU said.
    The EU's confirmation of the meeting came soon after Kerry accused Russian agents and special forces of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to prepare for military action as it had in Crimea.
    Kerry and Lavrov held talks in Paris on March 30 about ways to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, with Kerry telling Moscow then that progress depended on a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine's borders.
    The two have been seeking to hammer out the framework of a deal to reduce tensions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
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