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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-06-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement of the Union2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020612.5.3-156"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-12-Speech-3-1572
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques F. Poos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Quaestors (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2002-01-16--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the reduced time allotted to the co-rapporteur means that I have to reduce the problem of the accession of Cyprus to a Shakespearian question: one State or two, that is the question. Obviously accession to the European Union is open to only one Cypriot State as far as international law is concerned. That means that the representatives of the two communities on the island will have to agree on a constitutional formula which will enable the new Member State to participate in the decision-making process and to assume all its obligations under Community law. Only a federal model, in other words the model which is recommended in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions, fulfils this objective. Any theories based on the existence of two sovereign States which would be linked together by a vague treaty of partnership rather than via a solid, democratic and freely accepted constitution, would give rise to fictitious and inoperable structures which would be unacceptable from the legal viewpoint. We are now entering into the final stretch of the negotiation process. The current window of opportunity, the opportunity to resolve a forty-year old conflict, will close at the end of this month. I should like to emphasise here that it is precisely the European dimension which provides the opportunity to transcend the old quarrel about sovereignty. Jean Monnet said that in order to change the facts of a problem it was enough to change its framework. As the rapporteur, I hope that the negotiators will find, in the words of Jean Monnet, the inspiration for a final effort. If not, the Republic of Cyprus would be admitted by the European Council of Copenhagen on the same terms as the other candidate countries. Cyprus fulfils all the required conditions, and has now completed twenty-four of the thirty-one chapters of the accession negotiations. There is therefore no doubt but that it will form part of the first wave of accessions."@en1

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