TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS TURKEY WANTS TO JOIN EU SOON
ArmInfo
2009-11-17 18:37:00
ArmInfo. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey wanted
to join the EU as soon as possible.
"Spain waited for seven years to join the EU. I do not want to
talk about any definite date but we want to join the EU as soon as
possible," Davutoglu said in exclusive interviews with Spanish "El
Pais", "El Mundo" and "La Vanguardia" newspapers.
"This should not be perceived as if we would wait for seven years. We
have already been waiting for half a century," he also said.
Davutoglu said that France and Germany had concerns about Turkey.
Noting that France had concerns to prevent Spain’s EU membership,
Davutoglu said Madrid-Paris relations were better today than the past.
"We have a wide vision, and Ankara-Paris relations will be better when
Turkey becomes an EU member," he said. To remind, President of France
Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have repeatedly
said that Turkey must not be admitted into the EU. Particularly,
Sarkozy said during his electoral campaign 2007: "I want to say
that Europe must give itself borders, that not all countries have a
vocation to become members of Europe, beginning with Turkey which has
no place inside the European Union. Enlarging Europe with no limit
risks destroying European political union, and that I do not accept."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
