"EU prepares key Turkey document
22.06.2005 - 09:58 CET | By Elitsa Vucheva EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS � The European Commission is set to let Turkey move a step closer to the EU by approving the negotiations framework, on which it will base membership negotiations with the country, next Wednesday (29 June).
The framework for negotiations constitutes the main guiding principles on which EU negotiations with a country are started.
After the Commission approves the draft on Turkey, member states are to take over the question, during the meeting of EU foreign ministers in July or September, EU commissioner in charge of enlargement Olli Rehn told the European Parliament�s foreign affairs committee on Tuesday (21 June).
The document is 'a common position of the EU', Mr Rehn�s spokesperson told the EUobserver adding 'The European Commission presents all the documents, but takes no decision whatsoever'."
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