Turkey will actively continue the EU integration process, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul stated. He said, Ankara will keep on active and decisive progress on the way of country’s integration to the European Union. “Nobody must doubt in it. The document that we’ve prepared includes practical spheres of our everyday activities. Its goal is to bring our standard to the European level,” the Turkish FM underlined.
He also noted the document, which is otherwise called “road map for country’s integration to the EU, includes 33 directions of negotiation process. In his part Minister of State and Chief Negotiator of Turkey for the European Union Affairs Ali Babacan said, the documents includes reforms on 8 technical subjects, because of which talks with Ankara were partially frizzed, RIA “Novosti” reports.
Last year at the EU summit that was held December 14-15, a decision was made to partially frizz talks with Ankara over Turkey’s membership to the European Union. Negotiations with Ankara that are being carried out since October 2005, were stooped on 8 of 35 technical subjects, which concern Turkey’s commitments on Cyprus in the framework of the additional protocol on customs union. The agreement supposes that Turkey must open its ports and airports for the Republic of Cyprus, which is an EU member-state since 2004. Earlier official Ankara declared he would do that only after international recognition of the North Cyprus.
