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    Bagis: Turkey to suspend talks with EU during Cyprus' presidency

    April 30, 2012 - 13:22 AMT


    PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey will not open negotiation chapters with the
    EU during Cyprus' presidency term in the second half of 2012, Turkey's
    EU Minister and chief negotiator Egemen BaÄ?ıÅ? said, Hurriyet Daily
    News reported.

    `If the Greek Cypriots want to open a chapter with us, we will give
    them a date after their presidency is over, and open the chapter then.
    In the meantime, our relations with the commission, Parliament and EU
    member countries will continue the same,' BaÄ?ıÅ? said in an interview
    with the private NTV news channel.

    `We don't have relations with Greek Cyprus today, so we're not going
    to start one just because someone appointed them as president,' BaÄ?ıÅ?
    said.

    Meanwhile, Alexander Downer, the UN special envoy for Cyprus, said the
    UN saw no reason to host further meetings of the two Cypriot leaders
    `unless there is a clear indication from both sides that there is
    something substantial they wish to conclude.'

    `UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon scrapped plans for an international
    conference on Cyprus set for late this month or in early May because
    insufficient progress had been made in talks,' Downer said but added
    that Ban `still held out hope for a conference in the summer.'




    From: A. Papazian
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