Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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TNTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1997<br />
By Tom Buerkle<br />
Internoliof1tl1 Herald Tribune<br />
, The closer tiestould incluge giv- , The ministers' overture tp Ankara<br />
ing Turkey a seat at a permanént was aimed at haiting a recent <strong>de</strong>-<br />
European èonference" whiêh th,e terioration in EU~T\!Tlcishrelations,<br />
APELDOORN, the N<strong>et</strong>herlands ministers agreed should be' begUJl whjch has threàten~d to irit~rféte<br />
European Union foreign min- nc;;xtyear, alongsi<strong>de</strong> the 10 countries with the planned' expansion of<br />
ifitèrssought to reassure Tui"kéy on of Central and Eastern Europe and NATO and the Union into Central<br />
Sunday that it had a future in the Cyprus, which have been promis~d Europe.But those relations contin\le<br />
'\v,est, saying they were ready to e~entuai EU membership. ., to' be clou<strong>de</strong>d 'by the attitu<strong>de</strong> of<br />
<strong>de</strong>epen economic and political. c()- ';"The agreement on the coriference, Europe' s own lea<strong>de</strong>rs, as well as<br />
opération and' were leaving the doot', which Ftenèh' officials' have 'prö- G~e 's continued refusal to lift its<br />
open to eventual EU membership 'posed for months but which min-<br />
~or Ankara. 'isters discussed for the first time<br />
"It is very important that we es-here, provi<strong>de</strong>d the,clearest signal to,<br />
it~-lblishaline,alanguage;thatisboth :late that the Union will mimic the<br />
:positive and comprehensive," North Atlantic Treaty Organization<br />
}lerve <strong>de</strong> Char<strong>et</strong>te, the French for- and open membership negotiations<br />
4ign minister, said after a me<strong>et</strong>ing ofwith only a handful of the most-<br />
'EU foreign ministers here Sunday. ,advanced Central European coun-<br />
~U membershipwas noton the ~ble 'tries next year., ,<br />
tpday, he said, but "Turkey has the; , The conference "allows us to<br />
ïjight to join the EU,and that right give those whoaren't in the first<br />
ijas to be confmned forcefully." :wave the feelingthat they are riot<br />
, , " . being ignored," said the German,<br />
foreign minister, Klaus Kinkel. , '<br />
, Mr. <strong>de</strong> Char<strong>et</strong>te, who proposed thé<br />
, 'The EUwants Turkey<br />
toremain on the track<br />
, to Europe. and not to<br />
,be pushed into a<br />
siding,' but 'it is clear<br />
that Turkeydoes not<br />
now fulfill conditions<br />
for membership.'<br />
conference, said it would bring to- , '<br />
g<strong>et</strong>her lea<strong>de</strong>rs aJ1dforeign ministers v<strong>et</strong>o on 375 million Ecus ($417 milof<br />
the Union and candidate countries lion) of promised EU aid to Tur-<br />
,at least once a year for talks on issues key.<br />
ranging from economic and political Ankarawas dismayed last month<br />
reform to combating international . when Europe' s Christian Democratcrime'<br />
and drug trafficking.' FraJ)ce . iè lea<strong>de</strong>rs, iriclùding Chancellor<br />
and Britain s\Jpport Turkey's inclu- Hehnut Kohl of Germany and Prime<br />
sion in the conference, but Mr. Ministers Romano Prodi ofItaly and<br />
Kinkel and sev.eral other ministers Ipse-Maria' Aznar of, Spain, apwere<br />
more ambivalent. peared to mIe outED membership<br />
for Turkey because , overwhelmingly from offering membership to some' •'The EU wants Turkey to remain<br />
Central European nations this sum- on the track to Europe and not to'be<br />
mer unless the Union accords it the pushed into a siding," MI'. KinkeL<br />
same status of EU candidate as Po~ said. But, he ad<strong>de</strong>d, "it is clear that<br />
land, Hungary and other fonner So- Turkey does not now fulfill the convi<strong>et</strong>-bloc<br />
Mr. <strong>de</strong> Char<strong>et</strong>te and Malcolm Rif~ other ministers cited conce1"nsabout<br />
kind, the British foreign minister, human rights and Turkey'shandling<br />
of has urged Europe not to close any galos rejected the i<strong>de</strong>a here, reitdoors.to<br />
a to the West and does not want a menton C)P!1ls. ,<br />
of the Muslim country' s popula-" rebuff to push it into <strong>de</strong>epening ties<br />
with Islamic countries, but the govtion.'<br />
'ernment is sensitive about Ger-<br />
Foreign threatened member, Minister Tansu that Turkey, would block the Ciller has: a NATO' alliance' many's large Turkish minority popthreatened<br />
ulation adCl is wary of ~ndorsing EU<br />
memberS&ip for Ankara.<br />
states. ditions for membership." He and<br />
insisted that Turkey' must be judged s EU ambitions on the same ob- its Kurdish minority.<br />
Inthe short run, ministers stepped<br />
jective