PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN TELEPHONES PRODI
BUERGENSTOCK - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has telephoned European Union (EU) Commission President Romano Prodi and discussed the issue of derogation.
Diplomatic sources told the A.A correspondent on Thursday that Prime Minister Erdogan spoke with Prodi on the phone yesterday to discuss that an agreement to be reached in Cyprus should become a part of the primary law of the EU.
Meanwhile, the process of four-party talks was not brought onto agenda of yesterday's meeting between Turkish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul and Foreign Minister Petros Moliviatis of Greece.
During the meeting, Gul congratulated Moliviatis for his new post as the foreign minister of Greece, and stressed that Turkey had an intention to maintain and further improve the former progress made in the bilateral relations between Turkey and Greece.
Gul expressed his will that both Turkey and Greece should do everything in their power to find a fair and lasting solution to the Cyprus issue.
Meanwhile, diplomatic sources told the A.A correspondent that the Turkish side was still uneasy about failure of the Greek and the Greek Cypriot sides to put forward their positions concretely.
The United Nations has not presented a schedule or a program to the sides so far about frame of the four-party talks.
U.N. DENIES NEWS STORIES CLAIMING THAT CELL PHONES WERE BLOCKED
News stories claiming that cell phones were blocked in Buergenstock town of Switzerland in which the four-party Cyprus talks would be held, were denied.
United Nations officials said early on Thursday that the international organization did not have such a practice, adding that anyone in the town was able to use their cell phones without any interruption.
They said that members of some delegations did not use their cell phones at the meetings due to security reasons.
Earlier, some news stories were published claiming that cell phones of the delegations would be blocked during the four-party talks.
(UK-AÖ) 25.03.2004