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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9940
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/cyprus

Ambassador Mavroyiannis says that if Turkey does not apply the Ankara Protocol by the end of 2009, the EU should consider suspending other accession negotiating chapters

Brussels, 10/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - If Turkey does not open its ports and airports to Cypriot companies before the end of 2009, as is required by the Ankara Protocol on extension of the customs union that the Turkish government is refusing to apply to Cyprus, then the European Union should consider “beefing up” the sanctions it took in 2006 but without necessarily suspending Turkey's EU accession talks, explained the Cypriot Republic's Permanent Representative to the EU, Andreas D....

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