UK Ready to Support Turkey’s EU Bid

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.07.2006 18:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary Margaret
Beckett said on Tuesday that there are many European Union member
states ready to do their best for Turkey to successfully proceed
with its EU membership talks. Delivering a speech at Johns Hopkins
University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) in Washington, D.C., Beckett evaluated debates about a possible
"train crash," as put by European Enlargement Commissioner Olli
Rehn, during Turkey’s negotiations with the Union over the Cyprus
stalemate. Underlining there can be a variety of problems for all
candidate states during negotiations with the 25-nation bloc, Beckett
said, "However there’s no doubt that there’s a tremendous goodwill
among member states for talks with Turkey to lead to an agreement." "I
hope there isn’t a train crash during Turkey’s negotiations with the
EU over the Cyprus issue, or any other issue," said Beckett, assuring
Ankara of the EU’s goodwill for talks with Turkey and underlined that
this isn’t only Britain’s position, reported The New Anatolian.