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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8132

19 January 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/cyprus
Commissioner Verheugen highlights EU's role and prospect of enlargement in getting Cypriots around negotiating table

Brussels, 18/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Enlargement Commissioner, Günter Verheugen, said this week that he was very happy that rival Turk and Greek Cypriot leaders, Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, had started negotiating again. The Commissioner said "The European Union has brought some movement (on Cyprus) through the planned accession (of Cyprus to the EU). Otherwise nothing would have moved. It is encouraging and promising". He went on, "We can assume there's an actual will to...

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