EUROPE REVISING CE-TURKEY NEGOTIATIONS
By P. Keshishian
AZG Armenian Daily
28/06/2007
According to information received from the Federation of European
Armenians, Brussels, the Council of Europe restarted negotiations
with turkey on June 26, considering two topics instead of three –
statistics and finance supervision. The issue of global financial
policy had been omitted. The cause of such change was the official
position of France. French officials consider that talks on that
topic would imply Turkey’s further integration into the EURO area.
Earlier talks ended up with settling the issue of science and research
and appointment of financial assistance for technology development
in Turkey. But after zero progress was registered in turkey in 2006,
none of the issues can be considered finally settled.
Negotiations on eight topics were stopped never to be restarted again.