EU FOREIGN MINISTERS APPROVED TURKEY’S REVISED ACCESSION PARTNERSHIP DOCUMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.02.2008 01:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At a meeting in Brussels, European Union foreign
ministers yesterday approved Turkey’s revised accession partnership
document. A statement issued by the European Council on Foreign
Relations said that the document reviewed priorities in Turkey’s
accession process, along with conditions and principles. The new
document highlights the need for reforms over the next three to four
years in the areas of democracy and the rule of law, human rights,
citizenship and political rights, economic and social rights, minority
rights, cultural rights, the protection of minorities, regional and
international obligations, economic criteria and harmonization with
the EU acquis. Turkey is now expected to submit a national program
to the EU on its reform plans, Sabah reports.