Brussels, 26/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 25 January, the British prime minister affirmed: “We must work to establish very close ties between Turkey and other members of the European Union. If we think about terrorism and nuclear threat in the Middle East, we will see that Turkey is closely associated with the region. We must think out the ways of living together and ensure that Muslim Turkey joins the EU.” He also noted that Turkey and the United Kingdom have been enjoying close ties for a long time. “My firm position is that these relations should be successfully continued, and I will work for this.”
Commenting on the recent adoption by the French Senate of the law criminalising the denial of the so-called “Armenian genocide” by the Turks in 1915, Cameron said that his country also had enacted laws directed to the past, but he believes that we must live in the present. (CG/transl.fl)