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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8344

21 November 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey/cyprus
Erdogan insists on date for beginning negotiations - Annan plan for Cyprus "comes at a bad time"

Brussels, 20/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - Cyprus and ESDP: "are part of the same package" as te launch of Turkey's accession negotiations with the EU, declared the leader of the AKP Recep Erdogan, in Brussels on Wednesday. Erdogan repeated to the press that Ankara expected a date in Copenhagen for beginning negotiations, hammering home: "We have been waiting for 40 years, whereas those that put in their candidacy 10 years ago are to enter". As for the Annan Plan for Cyprus, "it has come at a...

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