"US Drafting Proposal Package to Avoid Turkey-EU Crisis
27 August 2006 | 13:54 | FOCUS News Agency
Nicosia. The US will introduce a proposal package for avoiding a crisis between Turkey and the European Union, Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros reads today.
The proposals will be introduced after the European Commission introduces the report on Turkey’s progress on October 24th.
The proposal, which is being revised by the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza, is focused on the opening of the ports and airport of the recognized only by Ankara Turkish Reoublic of Northern Cyprus.
In exchange to that the US proposal foresees the opening of the Turkish ports and airports to Cypriot ships and planes, the newspaper notes."
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