France to block further talks between Turkey and EUJune 14, 2007 - 14:07 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The scheduled negotiations over Turkey's accession to the European Union may fail on two of three articles. Besides Cyprus, Paris has also suddenly stated about his intention to block negotiations. France is going to block further talks on the issue of Turkey's accession to the EU, Financial Times Deutschland reports. Citing representatives of French diplomatic circles, the newspaper reports that President of the country Nicolas Sarkozy may try to veto negotiations over "Economic and Currency Union" article.Paris explains his refusal with arguments that this very direction of talks applies only to those countries, the future full membership of which does not raise doubts from the very beginning. For, example the same thing happened with Eastern European countries, which joined the EU recently, Deutsche Welle reports. It is worth mentioning that France has always opposed Turkey's accession to the European Union. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |