Turkey's EU chances linked to Armenia dispute: EU official
05/05/2005
Turkish membership of the European Union will likely be influenced by Ankara's relations with Armenia, which wants it to recognise mass killings from 1915 as a genocide, an EU official said in Yerevan, Armenia on Thursday.
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Talvitie, a former Finnish diplomat whose mandate covers regional cooperation, was speaking at a press conference with Armenia's Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in late April that the subject would never be a precondition to Turkey's EU accession.
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Turkish membership of the European Union will likely be influenced by Ankara's relations with Armenia, which wants it to recognise mass killings from 1915 as a genocide, an EU official said in Yerevan, Armenia on Thursday.
[...]
Talvitie, a former Finnish diplomat whose mandate covers regional cooperation, was speaking at a press conference with Armenia's Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in late April that the subject would never be a precondition to Turkey's EU accession.
[...]
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears on:
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/050505172638.d596cmf3
Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...].The bold emphasis is mine.
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