Babacan To Meet French Foreign Minister On Saturday

PARIS - Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan will meet his French counterpart in Paris on Saturday.
The two ministers will discuss Sunday's Union for the Mediterranean summit as well as Turkey-EU relations.
The meeting is important for Turkey as France holds the rotating EU Presidency.
France which opposes Turkey's full membership to the EU and offers "privileged partnership" instead, announced earlier that it would not object to the opening of two or three chapters to negotiations during its term as EU President.
Under the French presidency, "free travel of capital", "energy," "culture and education" chapters are expected to be opened for negotiation.
France earlier vetoed opening of the chapters on common fiscal and economic policy as they made direct reference to full membership.
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