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With no solution to Cyprus and Armenian issues, Turkey's EU prospects
out of question
01.11.2008 15:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Daniel Gros, director of the Brussels-based Center
for European Policy Studies, warned Turkey it would need to get things
moving.
`Turkey is losing time,' said Gros, adding that he has seen no
progress in Turkey's reform process for EU membership. `The two big
stumbling blocks, Cyprus and Armenia, sooner or later have to be
resolved.'
`The later Turkey takes steps on the Cyprus issue, the more difficult
it will become as each year passes,' Gros said. `If there is no
solution to the Cyprus and Armenian issues, we will not be able to
speak about Turkey's EU prospects.'
The Armenian issue is, `a secondary question,' because it is not a
member of the EU, Gros added, placing the emphasis on Cyprus. He said
he remained optimistic over the future of northern Cyprus. `As long as
northern Cyprus develops nicely, which it seems to be doing now, over
time it will become a de facto state and this reality will be
recognized,' Gros said, the Turkish Daily News reports.
With no solution to Cyprus and Armenian issues, Turkey's EU prospects
out of question
01.11.2008 15:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Daniel Gros, director of the Brussels-based Center
for European Policy Studies, warned Turkey it would need to get things
moving.
`Turkey is losing time,' said Gros, adding that he has seen no
progress in Turkey's reform process for EU membership. `The two big
stumbling blocks, Cyprus and Armenia, sooner or later have to be
resolved.'
`The later Turkey takes steps on the Cyprus issue, the more difficult
it will become as each year passes,' Gros said. `If there is no
solution to the Cyprus and Armenian issues, we will not be able to
speak about Turkey's EU prospects.'
The Armenian issue is, `a secondary question,' because it is not a
member of the EU, Gros added, placing the emphasis on Cyprus. He said
he remained optimistic over the future of northern Cyprus. `As long as
northern Cyprus develops nicely, which it seems to be doing now, over
time it will become a de facto state and this reality will be
recognized,' Gros said, the Turkish Daily News reports.