LAGENDIJK CRITICIZED EU’S POLICY ON CYPRUS IN NEW YORK
The European Union was wrong on its Cyprus policy.
The Co-Chairman of the EU- Turkey Joint Parliamentary Commission Joost Lagendijk has criticized the EU’s policy on the Cyprus issue by stressing that
it was a mistake to accept the Greek Cypriot Administration’s unilateral membership into the blog.
Lagendijk said the EU is aware of its mistake it made on the Greek Cypriot side’s unilateral membership.
He believes in the necessity for the EU to push the Greek Cypriot side for coming to an agreement with the Turkish side in order to achieve reunification in Cyprus.
Joost Lagendijk commented on EU’s Cyprus policy at a university conference held in New York on `Democracy, Islam and Secularism: Turkey on Comparative Perspective`.
The Co-Chairman said the EU membership of the Greek Cypriot side which voted `no` on the Annan Plan, and French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s statements against Turkey’s EU membership, have cause deeper concerns in Turkey, raising the feeling that the EU does not want to include Turkey.