Draft Final Statement Of E.U. Brussels Summit Includes Deliberate Expressions About Turkey

BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) is getting prepared to use deliberate expressions about Turkey in the final statement of the extraordinary summit to take place in Brussels on October 24-25.
The draft text adopted at the Permanent Representatives Committee will be presented to the consent of the EU foreign ministers at the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg at the beginning of the following week. The text will later be approved by the heads of state and government in Brussels on October 24-25.
Paragraph on Turkey in the mentioned text includes expressions that ''as stated in the last progress report announced by the European Commission, Turkey took significant steps in adjustment to Copenhagen political and economic criteria and the EU acquis. These steps bring Turkey closer to opening of full membership negotiations.''
The text notes that the EU ''has encouraged'' Turkey to continue its reforms and implementation of the reforms and to ''take concrete steps.''
The paragraph states that approaches to Turkey is same with the approach to other candidates and asks a decision to be taken for a following stage of Turkey's candidacy at the Copenhagen Summit and also asks that facts in the progress report to be taken as a base when the decision is being taken.
The text points out that EU membership of the Greek Cypriot administration is preferred when the problems in the island are solved.
Calling the sides to continue solution efforts and make use of opportunities, the text states that in case of a nonsolution, the decision about the full membership of the Greek Cypriot administration will be taken at Copenhagen Summit ''in the light of the final statement of the Helsinki Summit.''
The Helsinki statement noted that solution of problems in Cyprus was not a precondition for full membership. However, it said, the Council would make a decision in the light of developments.
The draft final statement of the Brussels summit mentions a financial support especially to ''Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus'' in case of full membership of the Greek Cypriot administration. This support is said to be around 39 million euros in 2004, 67 million euros in 2005 and 100 million euros in 2006.