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    TURKEY SHOULD JOIN EUROPEAN UNION - BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

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    Jan 26 2012
    Azerbaijan

    Turkey should join the European Union, British Prime Minister believes.

    "We must work to establish very close ties between Turkey and
    other members of the European Union. If we think about terrorism
    and nuclear threat in the Middle East, we will see that Turkey is
    closely associated with the region. We must think out the ways of
    living together and ensure that Muslim Turkey joins the EU", David
    Cameron said Wednesday at the winter session of PACE.

    He noted that Turkey and the United Kingdom have been enjoying close
    ties for a long time. "My firm position is that these relations
    should be successfully continued, and I will work for this," said
    the prime minister.

    Commenting on the recent adoption of the law criminalizing the denial
    of so-called "Armenian genocide" by the French Senate, Cameron said
    that his country also had enacted laws directed to the past, but he
    believes that we must live in the present.

    The French Senate - Upper House of parliament adopted the bill. Some
    127 senators voted in favour, while 86 were against on Jan.23.

    The lower house adopted a bill criminalising the denial of the genocide
    on Dec.22.

    Some 45 out of 577 French MPs voted with 38 voting for and seven
    against the adoption of the bill.

    The bill demands a year's imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euro for
    denying the so-called genocide.

    MPs from the French president's Union for Popular Movement (UMP)
    party proposed the bill aimed at criminalizing the dneial of the
    so-called genocide to the legislative committee of the National
    Assembly in early December.

    Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that the predecessor of the Turkey
    - Ottoman Empire had committed the 1915 genocide against the Armenians
    living in Anadolu, and achieved recognition of the "Armenian Genocide"
    by the parliaments of several countries.

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