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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.
Trend
http://en.trend.az/news/politics/1984332.html
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.