Wednesday, September 26, 2007

AFP: Top level bilateral talks on Turkey's EU bid: French FM

"Top level bilateral talks on Turkey's EU bid: French FM 11 hours ago
NEW YORK (AFP) — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday that he would meet with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan to discuss Ankara's contentious bid to join the European Union. Kouchner said he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy 'spent one-hour-and-a-half with Prime Minister (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan yesterday and we decided that the Turkish foreign minister and I will be in charge to establish a sort of working group to consider the whole possibilities' on Turkey's EU membership."

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