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"Mr President, please allow me, as chairman of the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee, to express my delight and gratitude regarding last week’s Council decision giving the go-ahead for Croatia to begin accession negotiations too.
Although the negotiations with Turkey will open at the same time, I believe it is important not to tie the two countries together, be it during the screening process or chapter negotiations. Croatia must be assessed solely on its own merits and achievements. In the case of Croatia, it will really be a process of reunification rather than enlargement, as this nation of four-and-a-half million souls has always been part of Europe; it shares our common history and culture. We also received assurances from our Croatian colleagues at the meeting of the parliamentary delegation that they will continue to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, which was one of the conditions for the launch of accession negotiations. I call upon you to do what you can in your own particular field to bring the negotiations to a speedy and successful conclusion, so that we can welcome our Croatian friends as new members of this House after the 2009 elections to the European Parliament."@en1
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