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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8734

25 June 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Dutch Presidency confident that Ankara will make progress in reforms in coming months

Brussels, 24/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - Bernard Bot, the Dutch Foreign Minister who will chair the "General Affairs" Council in the second half of the year, has said that he is confident that Turkey will make progress by December to fulfil the necessary criteria for accession negotiations to start in 2005. "the position of the Dutch Presidency is quite simple: we will wait for the Commission's report in October, before taking a decision in December", he said. It is therefore "too soon" for...

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