EU-TURKEY TALKS TO BE CONTINUED, THINKS HEAD OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.01.2007 19:23 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Union wants to continue talks
with Turkey, stated Jose Manuel Barrozo, the head of the European
Commission, adding that the EU views Turkey as a full member, CNN
Turk reports.
"Earlier I have repeatedly said that the talks with EU are difficult
and continuous process but we are adherents of it. But all the
candidate states must fulfill their commitments taken in front of
the European Union," Barrozo underlined.
It is worth reminding that the talks, which are being held between
Turkey and Brussels from last October, are frozen on 8 of 35 technical
subjects and are connected with Turkey’s obligation on Cyprus in
the framework of additional protocol on Customs Union. The Turkish
authorities also think that the Cyprus issue, which is a stumbling
block in Ankara-EU relations, must be solved in the United Nations
Organization and not in the European Union. "А comprehensive
solution of the Cyprus issue is possible to guarantee only in UN,"
stated Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul in this regard. Turkish
Media reports that the question to raise the blockade of North Cyprus
will be discussed by the EU on January. It is expected that the issue
will be raised by Germany’s initiative, which has taken the European
Union presidency from January 1, 2007.