Thursday, September 28, 2006

..:: ABHABER.COM :Erdogan: Any new conditions for EU membership are unacceptable

"Erdogan: Any new conditions for EU membership are unacceptable

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed to keep up the reform process aimed at joining the European Union, but warned it would be unacceptable for the bloc to introduce new membership criteria.

'We're not seeking anything special from the EU in the process ahead and in return we naturally cannot accept new criteria being introduced,' Erdogan told a conference in Istanbul, stressing that Ankara is doing its best to meet the requirements of the 25-nation bloc. "

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