Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-18-Speech-3-054"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The work of the Danish presidency2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021218.3.3-054"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-18-Speech-3-0552
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, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, as rapporteur for the accession of Cyprus, I fully welcome the decision of the Copenhagen European Council to admit Cyprus to the European Union as a new Member State. I would also like to congratulate the Commission and Council teams that negotiated the accession of Cyprus. The European Council has therefore honoured the promise made at Helsinki to carry out accession, even in the absence of a political solution. Our hope of seeing a reunited island joining the Union has not materialised. We now know that neither lack of time nor external pressure can be cited as reasons why it is impossible to accept the UN Secretary-General’s proposals as a basis for a global settlement. The agreement was sabotaged by those who continue, even today, to advocate the existence of two separate States instead of one federal State, and who wish to see Cyprus join at the same time as Turkey, rather than in May 2004, as an independent and indivisible country. Mr Denktash and his entourage are largely responsible for this failure, and I understand the frustration and anger of a large part of the Turkish Cypriot civil society as well as the opposition parties. It is true that the two sides have committed to continue negotiations with a view to reaching a global settlement before the end of February; it is true that there is still the opportunity to bring down the last wall in Europe. However, the mental barriers that the privileged few of Mr Denktash’s regime still cling to will not disappear as if by magic because, for them, no solution is the solution. Mr Denktash’s stalling policy could very soon turn out to be a threat to Turkey’s ambitions in Europe. At present, there is still a last glimmer of hope that the European Union should bank on: the new Turkish Government could lay a major deal on the table and thus demonstrate that its declared intention to persevere along the path indicated by Europe is, in fact, genuine."@en1

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