ANKARA INTENDS TO CONTINUE ACTIVE PROGRESS ON WAY TO EU INTEGRATION

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.04.2007 14:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey will actively continue the EU integration
process, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul stated. He said,
Ankara will keep on active and decisive progress on the way of
country’s integration to the European Union. "Nobody must doubt in
it. The document that we’ve prepared includes practical spheres of
our everyday activities. Its goal is to bring our standard to the
European level," the Turkish FM underlined.

He also noted the document, which is otherwise called "road map for
country’s integration to the EU, includes 33 directions of negotiation
process. In his part Minister of State and Chief Negotiator of Turkey
for the European Union Affairs Ali Babacan said, the documents includes
reforms on 8 technical subjects, because of which talks with Ankara
were partially frizzed, RIA "Novosti" reports.

Last year at the EU summit that was held December 14-15, a decision was
made to partially frizz talks with Ankara over Turkey’s membership to
the European Union. Negotiations with Ankara that are being carried
out since October 2005, were stooped on 8 of 35 technical subjects,
which concern Turkey’s commitments on Cyprus in the framework of the
additional protocol on customs union. The agreement supposes that
Turkey must open its ports and airports for the Republic of Cyprus,
which is an EU member-state since 2004.

Earlier official Ankara declared he would do that only after
international recognition of the North Cyprus.