KAROLOS PAPOULIAS: TURKEY MUST ADAPT HIMSELF TO EU REQUIREMENTS, AND NOT THE OPPOSITE

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.06.2007 19:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "As you know, since 2005 Turkey holds membership
negotiations with the European Union.

>>From the first day Greek supported Ankara’s membership to the
EU, however Turkey must accept European preconditions like all
other states, which have become European Union member-states," Greek
President Karolos Papoulias stated to a joint press conference with his
Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian in Yerevan. He said, Turkey must
adapt himself to EU requirements, and not the opposite. "I hope Ankara
will think it over and take into consideration that it is unacceptable
to enter Europe under the existence of a 35-thousand occupation army
in Cyprus, which is a member of the European Union," K. Papoulias said.