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"Mr President, Paragraph 17 of Mr Morillon’s report states that the European Parliament ‘calls on the Turkish Government to withdraw its occupation forces from northern Cyprus’. I am myself the author of this wording in the form of Amendment 72, adopted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy on 10 October 2000.
I should particularly like to address Mr Verheugen, as the Commissioner with responsibility for enlargement, and also the French Presidency. Almost 40 per cent of Cyprus is occupied by foreign troops in the form of Turkish soldiers. Eleven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicosia is now Europe’s only divided capital. Historically, Cyprus – the island of Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas – has not previously been divided, but has now been so for 26 years due to a foreign invasion.
The EU’s four freedoms cannot be applied to the whole of Cyprus following the partition. Is it possible for Turkey to begin membership negotiations at all without the four freedoms’ being applied in Cyprus? Must not Nicosia become a united city and Cyprus a united country? Must not the occupying troops be withdrawn?
Previous speakers referred to the genocide in Armenia. This took place only 24 years before Hitler’s time and before the Second World War, when Hitler began the annihilation of the Jews. He himself referred to this genocide as if it were something forgotten. Turkey must come to terms with the truth."@en1
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