New Draft Satisfied Neither Ankara nor the Greek Cypriots

[brother]

European Union (EU) Term President UK sent a new Cyprus declaration draft to member countries Tuesday evening.

The draft with slight improvements for Turkey will be handled in today's Permanent Representatives Committee.


Diplomatic sources in Brussels said it will be hard to reach an agreement on the new draft that does not satisfy the Greek Cypriots.


http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20050908&hn=23787

For full article goto above link.


It seems that the idea is to get Turkey to walk away from negotiations and many EU countries have noticed this aswell as the international community.

[cannedmoose]

Member states struggle on Cyprus counter declaration

The UK presidency's goal of reaching agreement on Wednesday (7 September) over an EU counter declaration on Cyprus, meant to pave the way for entry talks with Turkey, was proving "very difficult" to reach, according to diplomats.

Diplomats close to the meeting between EU ambassadors said the talks were "very tough".

After Wednesday's failure of the talks, the UK presidency is now set to intensify bilateral meetings before EU ambassadors meet again next week.

Full article at: http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=19820

[Alexandros Lordos]

[magikthrill]

whats this counter declaratino exactly?

[brother]

[murtaza]

And they cannot even do it, Even their system failed with a minor conflict. I dont know, How EU will become a global power. Most of their energy goes to negotiation.