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TURKISH MINISTER EXPECTS OBJECTIVE EU PROGRESS REPORT ON TURKEY
Anatolia news agency
Oct 21 2008
Turkey
Ankara, 21 October: The Turkish foreign minister expressed his
expectation for an objective and fair progress report on Tuesday
[21 October].
Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said that he expected that
the European Commission would prepare an objective and fair progress
report on Turkey.
The commission is to make public the report on Turkey's progress on
the road to European Union (EU) membership in November.
"This year's report should objectively and fairly show where Turkey
is, what it is doing and what it has to do," Babacan told the private
NTV channel.
Babacan said Turkey would make reforms according to its own schedule
and priorities.
Also, Babacan said that Turkey would maintain its busy diplomacy
traffic with Armenia and told the private channel that he might meet
his Armenian counterpart in a meeting of the foreign ministers of
Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) countries in Tirana, Albania.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul paid one-day visit to the Armenian
capital of Yerevan to watch a 2010 World Cup qualifier between Turkish
and Armenian national soccer teams on 6 September 2008.
Gul met his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan during this visit.
Anatolia news agency
Oct 21 2008
Turkey
Ankara, 21 October: The Turkish foreign minister expressed his
expectation for an objective and fair progress report on Tuesday
[21 October].
Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said that he expected that
the European Commission would prepare an objective and fair progress
report on Turkey.
The commission is to make public the report on Turkey's progress on
the road to European Union (EU) membership in November.
"This year's report should objectively and fairly show where Turkey
is, what it is doing and what it has to do," Babacan told the private
NTV channel.
Babacan said Turkey would make reforms according to its own schedule
and priorities.
Also, Babacan said that Turkey would maintain its busy diplomacy
traffic with Armenia and told the private channel that he might meet
his Armenian counterpart in a meeting of the foreign ministers of
Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) countries in Tirana, Albania.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul paid one-day visit to the Armenian
capital of Yerevan to watch a 2010 World Cup qualifier between Turkish
and Armenian national soccer teams on 6 September 2008.
Gul met his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan during this visit.