1. (U) Sun Kim, Second Secretary at the Korean Embassy in
Ankara, said his Embassy recently sent its formal invitation
to the GOT for the 3rd Global Forum on Fighting Corruption,
to be held in Seoul May 29-31. He said the Korean Embassy
did not receive instructions from Seoul to jointly approach
(with us) host government.




2. (U) Kim said the GOT will be sending two or three
officials from the Ministry of Justice, led by Justice
Minister Cemil Cicek. While the GOT delegation will attend
the 3rd Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, Kim did not know
whether the delegation would also be attending the 11th
International Anticorruption Forum, which will be held in
Seoul May 25-28, prior to the 3rd Global Forum.
PEARSON