Turkey urges EU to stick to its pledges
05.09.2009 16:13 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s top diplomat Ahmet Davutoglu met his
British counterpart David Miliband in Stockholm on Friday.

In an opinion piece in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, Ahmet Davutoglu
said his country has started an "unparalleled reform" process to live
up to EU demands and urged the union to stick to its part of the deal
and assess the bid.

The article was published Saturday – the second day of an informal EU
foreign ministers’ meeting in Stockholm.

Davutoglu said the EU has to pressure the Greek Cypriots to take on a
"constructive attitude" in negotiations regarding the island nation,
which was split into Greek and Turkish parts in 1974, Hurriyet Daily
News reported.