"EU snub 'has nothing to do' with Gul skipping talks
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Saturday, March 31, 2007
ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has declined an invitation to attend an EU meeting Saturday, but officials denied that his decision was linked to disappointment over the bloc's failure to invite Turkey to its 50th anniversary celebrations in Berlin last week. A Turkish diplomat said Friday that 'naturally there is certain resentment' in Ankara that Turkey, a long-standing membership hopeful, was not invited to the celebrations. 'We would have expected an invitation, given our decades-old relationship with the European Union,' the diplomat told AFP. 'But this has nothing to do with Mr. Gul's decision' not to attend Saturday's lunch of foreign ministers of EU member nations and candidate countries in the German city of Bremen on Saturday, she said. "
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