Nancy Pelosi rejected request for meeting with Gul

With Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul in the US capital Washington, DC for official visits, it has been a noticeable gap in his schedule that he has not been able to meet with the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. The Turkish Hurriyet reports that Pelosi, who has voiced her support for the same Armenian Genocide bill on which Gul is trying to work against, rejected a request from the Turkish Foreign Ministry for a meeting with Gul, with claims that her schedule during Gul’s visit to the U.S. capital would be too busy to fit him in. The Turkish foreign minister tries to prevent the adoption of the bill during his official meetings with the George Bush administration representatives.