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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9000

29 July 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
President of EPP group demands recognition of Cyprus before launch of accession negotiations - no Thursday Coreper on Blair-Erdogan

Brussels, 28/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - The president of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering believes that Turkey should recognise Cyprus before beginning EU accession negotiations. On Thursday he declared that “accession negotiations with Turkey are impossible as long as the question of recognition of Cyprus is not settled”. On Wednesday, after meeting his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Tony Blair gave his full support to the Turkish position...

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