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EU opens ‘harmonisation talks’ with north
By Elias Hazou
THE government yesterday dismissed reports that the EU was set to commence harmonisation negotiations with the breakaway regime.
Politis quoted Turkish Cypriot ‘Prime Minister’ Ferdi Sabit Soyer as saying the bloc’s Enlargement Directorate had proposed the launch of “harmonisation talks” on 12 chapters of EU law.

The paper warned this could be a disguised precursor to the start of accession negotiations between the 27-nation bloc and the ‘TRNC’.

The international community does not recognise the breakaway north as a state. Upon the Republic’s accession to the EU in 2004, the application of the EU acquis in the occupied territories was suspended pending the reunification of the island.
Soyer was speaking shortly on his return from Brussels, where he held contacts with Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and other EU officials.

“Mr Rehn’s team told us about the 12 chapters, and we accepted this,” said Soyer.
According to Politis, the chapters concerned were: free movement of capital, public contracts, corporate law, competition policies, monetary and financial services, agriculture growth policies, food safety and veterinary policy, transport policy, statistical services, social policies and employment, the environment and consumer protection.
But Soyer went a step further, suggesting that Turkish Cypriots might consider going their own way if the prospects for reunification vanished.

“Is it harder for them [the EU] to set up a power-sharing system in Cyprus so that the whole island could join the bloc as one?” he mused.
And drawing parallels with Kosovo and Montenegro, he added:
“We are against secession, but if the only option left is for us to live under Greek Cypriot hegemony, then we do not rule this out.”

Asked by the Cyprus News Agency to comment on Soyer’s remarks, a European Commission official said:
“The EU has proposed to the Turkish Cypriot community the start of harmonisation talks on 12 chapters.”

However, the official added, the whole process was part of an existing EU scheme, known as the Programme for the Future Application of the Acquis (PFAA), which includes the implementation of a €259 million aid package for the north by 2011.
PFAA aims at helping Turkish Cypriots reform economic and administrative institutions in line with EU practice.

“It [PFAA] will help the Turkish Cypriot community to be in a position to meet its obligations once the acquis suspension is lifted, as for example in the event of the reunification of the island,” the EU official said.
The government was quick to play down the issue. Speaking to newsmen yesterday, Government Spokesman Vasilis Palmas said it would be “absurd” for someone to think that such discussions between the EU and the north could constitute “negotiations”, and accession negotiations no less.

“There is absolutely no question of negotiating chapters with the Turkish Cypriot community,” asserted Palmas.

Asked whether the government had been aware of these developments, Palmas said the relevant departments had contacted Brussels and that “any statements I now make are in consultation with the EU”.

He said the EU Commission’s reference to harmonisation on 12 chapters was “probably the wrong wording used by the specific EU official”.

But speaking from the campaign trail, presidential candidate Costas Themistocleous said he did not share the government’s confidence.

“Unless we have a solution soon, then this process could become the forerunner for separate negotiations [between the breakaway regime and the EU],” he said.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007

[boomerang]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

[zan]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

[boomerang]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

[zan]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

You fining it hard to understand Boomers YES YES YES is the answer...You ethnically cleans us and got it so it must be the norm.........

[phoenix]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

You fining it hard to understand Boomers YES YES YES is the answer...You ethnically cleans us and got it so it must be the norm.........

You cannot be ethnically cleansed from somewhere if you are free to come and go with only the usual passport / visa controls. The only thing stopping you moving to the RoC Zan is your mind

However you are sicker than I thought if you dismiss the 200,000 GC refugees that are prevented from returning to the north by your 40,000 Turkish soldiers who would shoot them dead without a moments hesitation.
Merry Christmas

[MR-from-NG]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

You fining it hard to understand Boomers YES YES YES is the answer...You ethnically cleans us and got it so it must be the norm.........

You cannot be ethnically cleansed from somewhere if you are free to come and go with only the usual passport / visa controls. The only thing stopping you moving to the RoC Zan is your mind

However you are sicker than I thought if you dismiss the 200,000 GC refugees that are prevented from returning to the north by your 40,000 Turkish soldiers who would shoot them dead without a moments hesitation.
Merry Christmas

The troops are there to protect the TCs from the barbaric Greeks. Remember 63 and 74?

[phoenix]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

You fining it hard to understand Boomers YES YES YES is the answer...You ethnically cleans us and got it so it must be the norm.........

You cannot be ethnically cleansed from somewhere if you are free to come and go with only the usual passport / visa controls. The only thing stopping you moving to the RoC Zan is your mind

However you are sicker than I thought if you dismiss the 200,000 GC refugees that are prevented from returning to the north by your 40,000 Turkish soldiers who would shoot them dead without a moments hesitation.
Merry Christmas

The troops are there to protect the TCs from the barbaric Greeks. Remember 63 and 74?

Sadly lacking in education . . . Firstly, by definition the word barbaric does not apply to Greeks. Secondly, the Greeks predominantly live in Greece, not Cyprus.
Finally I remember 1963 when the Turks were bombing my village en route to Kokkina. And 1974 is a testament to the true barbarism that is upheld and practiced by Turkey.

[MR-from-NG]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

You fining it hard to understand Boomers YES YES YES is the answer...You ethnically cleans us and got it so it must be the norm.........

You cannot be ethnically cleansed from somewhere if you are free to come and go with only the usual passport / visa controls. The only thing stopping you moving to the RoC Zan is your mind

However you are sicker than I thought if you dismiss the 200,000 GC refugees that are prevented from returning to the north by your 40,000 Turkish soldiers who would shoot them dead without a moments hesitation.
Merry Christmas

The troops are there to protect the TCs from the barbaric Greeks. Remember 63 and 74?

Sadly lacking in education . . . Firstly, by definition the word barbaric does not apply to Greeks. Secondly, the Greeks predominantly live in Greece, not Cyprus.
Finally I remember 1963 when the Turks were bombing my village en route to Kokkina. And 1974 is a testament to the true barbarism that is upheld and practiced by Turkey.

TC/Turk, GC/Greek. Who are we kidding. The Greeks sneeze in Athens you catch a cold in Nicosia. No different to the TCs. So thanks for that useless bit of information.

Knowing your selective memory the bombing of your village is probably all that you remember of 63.

[zan]

So in essence what this article is saying is that the world today is ready to accept a new state build on ethnic cleansing...

Can anyone out there please point me to the UN or any other body that endorses these views...

Recognition of the "RoC" as the sole government in Cyprus.........Case in progress.

You are not answering the question Zan...Has anyone came out to recognise ETHNIC CLEANSING as the norm?

It's not rocket science man...its either yes or a no...

You fining it hard to understand Boomers YES YES YES is the answer...You ethnically cleans us and got it so it must be the norm.........

You cannot be ethnically cleansed from somewhere if you are free to come and go with only the usual passport / visa controls. The only thing stopping you moving to the RoC Zan is your mind

However you are sicker than I thought if you dismiss the 200,000 GC refugees that are prevented from returning to the north by your 40,000 Turkish soldiers who would shoot them dead without a moments hesitation.
Merry Christmas

Again you show your ignorance by quoting numbers out of the Greek propaganda books.......Keep up love because hat number of 200,000 has been shown up for what it is and it is lies....For a person hat boasted about doing research for her/his self you have let yourself down again.


As for moving and living in the "RoC" as a TC......We are not that sad that we want to live in your zoo lovely......A monkey can roam about freely in it's cage but it has not got the same rights as the zoo keeper. The ones that have had their homes and lives wrecked by deforestation are even more pissed off than the ones bread in captivity.