Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-14-Speech-2-146"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Turkey (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001114.5.2-146"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-14-Speech-2-1472
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques F. Poos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Quaestors (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; European Parliament (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to speak in this debate in my capacity as the author of the report on the accession of Cyprus. Since both Turkey and Cyprus are candidates for membership of the European Union, it is increasingly clear that a solution to the Cypriot question is becoming a matter of internal policy. Commission Verheugen has confirmed that the Cyprus issue plays a very important part in the discussions currently being conducted with Turkey. Given the political and military presence of Turkey in the northern part of the island of Cyprus, this could not fail to be the case. Our rapporteur, Mr Morillon, deserves our congratulations for stipulating that a solution to the Cyprus problem must be one of the preconditions for Turkey’s accession. ‘It is hard to understand today,’ he writes, ‘how it can remain divided by a wall, while in many other places such walls have crumbled over the past decade.’ In order for this outdated wall to be brought down, it is now essential for Turkey to comply with the Security Council resolutions requiring it to withdraw its occupying forces from the northern part of the island. Paragraph 17 of our motion for a resolution explicitly calls for this. It is high time that Turkey listened to the Turkish Cypriots, the great majority of whom wish to overcome the divisions of the past and join Europe alongside the Greek citizens of Cyprus. If, on the other hand, Turkey continues to fuel the separatist, even annexationist impulses of the unofficial government of northern Cyprus, then it will be responsible for causing the proximity talks to fail. In the medium term, an attitude of this kind would be an insurmountable obstacle to Turkey’s accession. One of the three conditions stipulated in the Morillon report, a condition that the European Parliament will be adopting, would still remain unfulfilled. Once the Ankara Government has understood that the status quo is not acceptable to Europe or to the rest of the world, then considerable progress may be made: the island may be reunified, and a fair and lasting global settlement may be achieved tomorrow in compliance with international law."@en1

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