Here are the main topics that the English News Desk of "Anadolu Agency" has to cover on December 18, 2008:

1- The Defense Industry Executive Committee will convene in the capital of Ankara under the chairmanship of Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (3 p.m.)

2- The Turkish Industrialists' & Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) will present "TUSIAD Bosphorus Prize for European Understanding" to Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and Emma Bonino, the vice president of Italian Senate, in Ankara. (7 p.m.)

3- Foreign Minister Babacan will leave for Brussels to participate in Turkey-European Union (EU) intergovernmental conference.

4- Kazakh Minister of Defense Daniyal Akhmetov will pay a visit to Turkish National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul in Ankara. (9:30 a.m.)

5- Alexander Downer, the special adviser of the United Nations Secretary General on Cyprus, will meet Ertugrul Apakan, the undersecretary of Turkish Foreign Ministry, in Ankara.

(A.A)

Thursday , 18 December 2008