ANKARA - Turkish foreign minister said Monday that a European Union common position paper on Turkey, which was approved by Union`s General Affairs and External Relations Council earlier, was "satisfactory."
"It is true that certain member countries had exerted efforts to wear down our membership bid but other members and the rotating presidency struggled to preserve Turkey`s full membership target, and the paper, as it is, constitutes a satisfactory document for us," Ali Babacan told reporters before his departure for Brussels to participate in a meeting of the Turkey-EU Association Council on Tuesday.
"Continued interference about the word `accession` at different levels of our negotiation process is disturbing and these obstructions do not comply with the principle of pacta sunt servanda, which is one of the basic principles of the European Union," he said.
(YMB-BRC)